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...so glad Spiny is back peeking in....Hotel CB:" you can check out... but you can never leave"

@FunTimes Spiny has been locked out for a spell....but I just got an email from her saying she got in this morning and browsing the board so I'm sure we'll see her posting soon!

I haven't posted anything about this ongoing project for a few years! For context, these verses came together many years ago (2015 if I remember correctly) in the span of a few hours.....a clusterhead from Cali put up a post in one of the Facebook clusterhead support groups explaining that he'd written the first verse (to the tune of "Sound of Silence" in the style of the group "Disturbed"......he challenged the group to collectively write the remaining verses. I had the privilege of watching as another 7 verses were added to the thread over a few hour time frame! So, I copied it all down and over the past 10+ years I've played with it, taking the liberty of rewriting in some cases to make the words fit the tune better, and reducing it to 4 verses which I actually (attempted) to sing at our 2019 patient conference in Dallas! But try as i may, I never could come up with a 5th verse to match up with the original tune. At this past years patient conference (in Dallas once again) I shared the lyrics with a longtime Facebook friend who lives in Bermuda who loved it and told me he had a good mate who might be able to record it for me when I figured out a last verse! When I got back home from the conference I was feeling inspired and reached out to a few folks for input and finally came up with the last verse.....which wound up being the 3rd verse and the original 3rd became the 4th. So, fast forward to today.....my Bermuda friends mate has had the lyrics and a backing instrumental that I found on YouTube but as yet he's not come thru....now I've begun the process of going to individual small recording studios in my area area, relating the story to them, and hoping they might have worked with a vocalist that could pull off a "Disturbed" version....no luck thus far and I'm thinking I'm gonna have to drive down to big D but fortunately I know a guy with a studio down there where I recorded years ago.... Anyway, that's the backstory, hoping to have a wrap on this project by this year's conference.....I've sent it to the Boss and he sez we can post it on clusterbusters YouTube channel... Hello Clusters my old friend You've come to haunt me once again You rudely wake me while I'm sleeping My nose is running and my eye's weeping And the demon that was planted in my brain Still remains I feel the pound Then shadows From restless dreams I wake alone From the pain I rock and moan Search thru darkness for the table lamp As I whimper with a cranial cramp Then my eye was stabbed In a flash with a red hot knife I cried in fright I felt the pound Then shadows Over many year's I saw One hundred doctors, maybe more Doctors listening without hearing Doctors treating but not healing Doctors writing scripts That seemed like living hell And nothing helped Erase the pain Of Clusters The unafflicted cannot know The shadows like a cancer grows Hear my screams that they might teach you Feel my pain that It might reach you And my tears Just like acid raindrops fell It's bloody hell 'exquisite pain Of Clusters Then I busted, fought and stayed Of the beast I'm not afraid And the Beast lashed out his warning Feel the burning and the pain swarming And the Beast said your head Will be bouncing off the sheetrock walls I KICKED HIS BALLS! He feels the pound Then shadows.......

Well your doctor wasn’t necessarily completely off with the advice to take a triptan pill an hour before a pretty much otherwise guaranteed sleep-induced attack. It seems it’s the TYPE of triptan pill that is at issue there. Some CHers have reported success preventing attacks with this approach, but with sumatriptan pills. Not surprised that the especially slow acting naratriptan didn’t work. Of course any triptan is not typically recommend by us busting folk around here though. for those with the buck$, there are independent labs now proliferating that do whatever bloodwork you want without need for a doctor’s order, cutting out the middle man. I would imagine there are some of those pretty close to you in LA for the initial blood draw, and that they could be searchable and findable online.

Thank you to all and lol @Bejeeber!!! Jeebs, in 1972 I went to work twisting wrenches at a little vw repair shop in Shawnee, Oklahoma.....it was there on.my 1st day that I met, and later became biz partners, with John Robert (Jack) Thorpe who just happened to be the youngest son of the great Indian athlete Jim Thorpe!! Jack was several years my senior (me at 25 and him at 37)....within a few hours after meeting Jack we were bs'ing and he said to me, "Chief, I'm gonna tell ya an absolute truth that you can take to the bank.....The older ya get, the faster time flys"! I have found that statement to be 1000% accurate!!! At my age, Jan 1st feels like it was just a few days ago!!! Of course, at my age, my short term memory is in the shit can as well so maybe it was just a few days ago!! Lmao! When Spiny and I spoke on the phone the other evening (she's just a couple years younger than me) we agreed that we both suffer from CRS=can't remember shit....we both.lost our train of thought several time during our marathon hour long plus conversation and the one of us would have to remind the the other what we'd been talking about!! Im tellin ya, old age ain't for the faint of heart!!!

G'mornin all!! I was doing a search for something else yesterday evening....this is from 2010 just a few weeks after I met Hollywood Dan of NatGeo fame....made me lol last nite as much as when his Bride Lee Ann originally posted it... I did Verapimil/Lithium cocktail for years. It caused constipation, the trembles and tears. The doctors and pharmacies, well they can just suck it. No longer will I take their pills by the bucket. They took all my money, they cut on my head. Leaving me wishing they'd killed me instead. My pulse was forty eight bpm at the best. My body shut down, it demanded a rest. With the help of my wife; include that I MUST. And with the help of this board...She learned me to bust! MUSHROOMS, THEY'RE NOT JUST FOR BREAKFAST ANYMORE! Dan