One of the reasons I moved to Mexico was because the painkiller I take for my leg was available without a prescription here. In the USA I had to pay $250 a month and pee in front of someone twice a year with humiliating Q&As just so I could get my script. Then every pharmacy stopped carrying it except for weird mail-order ones that seem to be run out of a person's house.
In Mexico tramadol was an over-the-counter drug, and I got complacent. As of tomorrow you have to have a prescription for it. A 'illicit drug' type prescription. I'm pissed.
I've weaned myself down to 100mg a day from a high of 400mg/day in the USA. My leg is killing me. My hip has started to hurt on the opposite side because I'm walking stupid because my leg hurts so much.
But whatever. I don't want go back to begging the system for the medication I need. I'm trying to wean myself completely off of it from the horde I horded when this news broke. It's miserable.
My one hope is that my neurologist will prescribe it the same way he did my Ambien. Because being in pain makes it harder to think. We'll see. In the meantime, my plan is to just get off the shit.
I still want a supply for emergencies however. Sometimes we travel and I literally can't walk due to the pain of walking so much. Same with my mom, who has a twisted spine and sometimes needs serious pain meds. I don't ever want her to not be able to have a pill if she needs it.
FML. Stupid anti-drug bullshit from the USA has invaded Mexico. I hate this.
In other news, I want to go see the Toy Story 5 movie, since they're usually pretty good, but they don't put out subtitled versions of kids movies here. Just the dubbed in Spanish version. So I have to wait for Streaming.
I don't know if I covered this before, but when a USA movie comes to Mexico they usually have subtitled or dubbed options. I just saw Backrooms a month ago and it was in English with Mexican subtitles. I also saw the newish Superman movie in English with Spanish subtitles.
I mean, it's great that I can still see movies in Mexico, but when a character is talking in a 3rd language on screen, like if they have Russian spies speaking in Russian the captions will be in Spanish, and I have to use my Spanish brain since I do technically speak Spanish now. But I like to just be lazy at the movies.
Anyway, the images in this post are from my game Dragon Riders. The supposed 'big one' for my game company. The game that's going to make $7 million dollars so I can take care of my staff and my family. It's a gacha game without microtransactions I say as if that means anything to anyone who actually reads this. We'll see...
If I make my goal, then...
1. I can buy a new house for my graphic designer Anna in Brazil so she stops losing everything every time it floods there.
2. I can give my programmer a $50,000 bonus...something I've always dreamed of.
3. I can give bonuses to my other workers at great and shocking amounts.
4. I can pay my cousin Diana to be a trustee in a corporation I set up in Puerto Rico to look after my cousin Danalee and aunt Gisela who both need to go into full time care. And I can buy a condo for her and another for my other cousin Yassier. Diana is probably needing a new car too...
5. I can have wealth for my niece and nephews in the USA so that if they ever need it I'm there, and when I'm gone they'll inherit it.
6. And when ALL THAT is done...I can buy a better home in Mexico with an American-Style kitchen with a fricking dishwasher and no more bus-sized cucarachas!
Well...that's the dream anyway.
