Last Friday I had a new experience. I went into a Canabis dispensary. It is not something I ever thought I would do and I especially didn’t think I would be doing it with one of my grandchildren. Life can be very unpredictable. But let me go back to the beginning.
Back in April when mom and I went to Texas for the wedding/eclipse/baptism/reunion trip I had my first experience with narcolepsy. Ally’s oldest son, Griffin, has narcolepsy and he had a fairly severe episode while we were there.
I guess there is virtually no treatment for narcolepsy and so far the only thing that seems to help is methamphetamine. That is not somehting that the FDA is willing to approve so they are left with little resource. In the absence of anything else, Brandon and Ally have been trying everything they can, and the one thing that seems to help is CBD from marijuana. He has been taking one CBD gummy every day at five oclock since April and he hasn’t had a single episode. Ally insisted on controlling what and when he takes them so one time when Brandon and Ally were out of town for a week, he went without his gummys and had a fairly scary episode.
He is a bit happy during the evening but all through the next day he is fully functional. It seems to be a good alternative to an otherwise nonfunctional life. It is odd that both methamphetamine and CBD help because one is a stimulant and the other is a depressant. CBD is a recognized treatment for seisures however so it isn’t surprising that it helps.
Last week Griffin flew out to San Diego for a Twitch Convention. He flew in Monday so he could spend a few days with us. For obvious reasons he left his gumies in Texas. They’re still illegal in Texas and I’m pretty sure he would have problems at the airport should the drug dogs come around. That means that he was without his gummies for several days before his first day at the convention on Friday.
Sure enough, around noon on Friday I got a call that Griffin had a narcoleptic event at the convention. I drove down there and picked him up and on the way home we decided to pick him up some CBD gummies. The dispensary was a surreal experience. Outside the door we were scanned for fire arms, we then stip inside an anti chamber where we had to show ID and then we were let inside the store where they had nearly one attendent for every customer. The store looked very classy and quite profitable.
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Dinosaur footprints have been found in Brazil and footprints made by the exact same dinasur have been found in Africa. These footprints were made 120 million years ago before the continents separated.
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2 comments:
How do they know it’s the exact same dinosaur? That’s cool!
Thank you so much for taking care of my baby boy!
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