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Covidiculous

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎07-17-2020 02:13 PM

      Today, I'm driving 20 miles each way to get a REQUIRED Covid test before my procedure Monday....I'm hoping the swab doesn't break off in my head.

      My procedure requires anesthesia and anesthesia requires someone drive you.

      Yesterday I sent a message to the Dr. to see what they were doing about the drivers..

I got a message back saying they had to wait in the parking lot. You mean like for 4 hours? They have you arrive an hour before they actually take you in for the procedure.

      We drive 45 minutes each way so he's not going to drive me down and drive home and then drive all the way back.

That would be COVIDICULOUS

      I leapt into action to figure a way my brother didn't have to sit in the parking lot for 4 hours.

         I called my health group and requested a ride to the procedure and will give instructions to call my twin brother when they roll me into recovery. Recovery takes a good hour or more so it should all work out.

When things aren't working you have to make them work, WITHOUT SMOKING!

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Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.