Etonne - deus ex machina
Flashback to share while watching “Thirteen Lives”
The film is not tto be missed and collect a watch party for this latest from Amazon and Ron Howard! “Thirteen Lives” is the true story of the Thai cave flooding crisis that trapped 12 soccer boys and their 25-year-old coach.
You may.remember it - the whole world followed the story with interest and response as need be. It was a though the devil himself was being a sadistic chess master - setting up a scenario with all challenges and dangers and no way out! But they did it! I won’t spoil your viewing here, but at one point the use of the anti-anxiety medication Xanax was key, and the mention of the name brought back the memory. Xanax and other fancier medications have had to win through some pretty extreme challenges, too. And combining it with Tofranil might have killed me. The combination being the thing with xanax.
I’d had a reaction to a medication to fix a tennis injury, and I lost 14 pounds in 24hours, hyperventilating and experiencing acuteness . So the xanax/tofranil was prescribed to help me get a grip on the collateral anxiety. Tests were run in a controlled environment to make sure I had not suffered hearth attack or stroke - that is how severe was my experience of it all. I was a Smith and good and happyh and hardy and fit and such things did not happen to me.
The tests were fine and home and back to my busy wife and mommy work and other jobs and activities to get my own little business going finally.
But life would not go back to normal BECAUSE the mix of xanax and tofranil was Causing the stubborn anxiety reaction following the rirst reaction. The disorientation, agoraphobia, random anxiety and more went on till we got off the xanax, and then just the logical feeling of having been badly served!
At that time, I still did not realize that it was the tofranil/xanax mix that caused all that trouble. Later I had some insight that somethign was “not quite right” but bigger things invaded my life and the issue was forgotten.
Only tonigho when the name of that drug so long ago make the picture spring to mind in full color, did the thing flow clear. I should have sued and I might have been killed.
Hmmmmm it’s late - done for now and done. Stay funed.
