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How Cannabis Gave Me My Life Back For A Second Time

As many of you know, I recently had a major operation to repair my chest. I suffer from Marfan Syndrome and had a severe Pectus Excavatum (sunken in chest). The surgeon performed what is called the Nuss Procedure. That is where incisions were made on each side of my body just under my arm pits and custom made titanium bars were slid in to place just under my ribs and sternum and just above my heart and lungs. These bars were made curved so that once they are slid in they they were flipped forcing my sternum and ribs outward to a more natural position.

This is the most painful thing I have ever went through and was told by my doctors and nurses that this was about the most painful surgery anyone could go through. I was expected to be in a semi coma state for a few days after surgery and hospitalized for at least 10-14 days. Instead, the medicine they gave me didn't put me in a semi coma state me like they expected due to my high tolerance. Immediately upon opening my eyes, my wife began giving me cannabis oil. So instead of a semi coma state for 3 days I was up and walking by the second day. My doctors were shocked. Throughout my stay, due to the severity of the pain, my doctors were giving me an epidural providing continuous drips of Hydromorphone. They were giving me Dilaudid every few hours intravenously. They were giving me 30mg Roxicodone every 2-4 hours and Morphine orally every 6-8 hours. Believe it or not, for the first few days that wasn't even stopping my pain. My wife started giving me the cannabis oil and that helped get the pain under control. So much so, that by about the 4th or 5th day I was actually turning down the pain medication at times. On the 4th day the epidural came out and I increased my oil consumption and still managed to keep my pain under control. I ran out of oil on the 5th day and the pain became unbearable. I was having to use my pain pump quite often. I reached out for help to obtain more oil and a wonderful friend and fellow veteran showed up at my hospital room and gave me more oil. After that, I never had to push my pain pump button again. On the 7th day the doctor came in and said they were removing the pain pump since I wasn't using it. Getting the pain pump out was the final step for me to be able to go home. My doctor told me he was shocked at how well I was doing, how well I was managing my pain and the fact I was resting so well. Unfortunately I couldn't tell him my secret of how I had accomplished this as using cannabis at the hospital wasn't allowed.

Yes, I was sent home with pain meds, but when the pain comes on I first reach for my cannabis capsules and usually get it under control although it sometimes takes 2-3 capsules due to the severity of the pain. That is still safer than taking massive amounts of opiates. I leave the pain medicine for very last resort.

My doctor made it clear to me that it would take 8 months to a year to recover or be able to move around normally or even sleep on my side. So my next goal is to see if I can speed up the recovery using cannabis and hopefully be on my feet after no more than 6 months.

When I was told I wouldn't last another year by my doctor in 2013 I turned to cannabis. I managed to outlive my doctors expectations thanks to cannabis. And now, again, I have beat my doctors expectations with the use of cannabis. Cannabis has kept me alive and gave me my live back now twice. I wanted to share my testimony on my experience with cannabis in the hopes that others will see cannabis as an viable option for many things and to which I can personally testify to cannabis' pain relief and life saving benefits, And last but certainly not least I want to thank all those in the cannabis community that helped me through this. You have all been a life saver. 1💚 ✌️😊