Gronowski has a bad shoulder - out until June

[Fryowa]

That's a sad story about your co-workers wife. But I know it can happen. My personality is like that -- get me some pain pills or muscle relaxants and I wanna be on 'em for the rest of my livin' days.

The scary thing was that I could function perfectly well, it just made me feel like a million bucks. But…eventually the tolerance just gets bigger and bigger if you do it long enough and then you start having major problems. Take enough of that stuff to keep chasing the feeling, and all the sudden your HR and breathing get way too low, you start getting high instead of just feeling good, and that’s all she wrote. Obviously things like driving and being responsible are impossible. It’s a damn good thing it’s not an over the counter product or a lot of us would be dead or in big, big trouble.

After the surgery I had that got me the pills prescribed, I got a blood clot in my lung which was 10x more painful than the surgery itself. Ended up in the hospital for 2 weeks from it. They gave me one of those morphine pumps where you can hit the button once every hour because I literally couldn’t take it at one point. Ive got a super low resting pulse to begin with and remember setting the alarm off multiple times when I was sleeping because my HR would drop to like 40. I’d wake myself up too from not breathing like I should’ve been. Super scary and I can see how people just take a bunch of that stuff, go to sleep, and never wake up.

I’ve never taken muscle relaxers but I’ve heard they’re pretty bad for a lot of people.