I am saddened that I missed this entire journey! I wish you the best of luck in whatever comes your way.
I will keep a lookout to see when you are playing on stars and rail you there!
GL and hope this experience has been the soul search you have needed :-)

Don't think I've posted my thanks for a great thread before. So here goes. Thanks. Great read.

BTW you're a pretty decent writer. Sit down and think up a tv pilot based on your experience these last weeks. Think Scrubs meets MASH or something. The main characters of course being the doctors, nurses and reps for the meds companies. Guest actors coming in to play the patience for x number of weeks.

I hear CBS have an open slot now that Charlie Sheen took to much medicine again.

Good luck.

Good Luck OP

Aye really good read man thanks and good luck

Wrong! Was and is an awesome thread.

Congrats on pulling through this ordeal! Let us know when you receive the well deserved payment.

I Hope ends well although i feel its 50/50 atm, Good luck.

Score any hookers, or blow yet?

Kidding, find healthy ways to enjoy your life. I'm heading to my poker league where we normally have 5-10 jeager shots to accompany the 5-10 beers and pack of smokes. See, Healthy.

Good luck, please let us know what's up from time to time. And I would enjoy a first day out play by play.

IMO
500 plane ticket to Phillippines
500 BR
500 beer, yeager, lumpia, roof
1k Flippament
5.5K hookers and blow (Charlie Sheen Style Baby)

GG, OP!

GL out there and let us know how you're doing.

Awesome thread mate, keep us all updated

Great thread.

Personally I wouldnt do one of these experiments as i would be too worried. But i guess people have found a way to make easy money and that probably 1 in 300 goes wrong or something (i guess you just gotta take that risk and hope your not the number 1!)

haha definately too busy to go on 2p2 at the moment is that boy, or he's gone weird off the drugs and can't type.

Mannn, asif I've only just got through this whole thread and now the journeys over!

Thanks for the good read my friend, hope your out there loving life! keep us updated on life!

Day 42 + 1

Laying here on my lonesome, back in this depressing place I call home, listening to Scorpions, thinking how much I miss my friends

Being back here is strange. Yesterday when I got home I was filled with an incredible sadness that I could not really understand. Being in that place was an escape from everything, but now I'm back and I'm kinda freaked out. I hate this place, 4 more weeks and then I step into a time capsule and move back home - no idea what that's gonna be like. But maybe I just need to adjust back to reality, and filter it through my new self. Maybe it's fear.

When we first got out, Bed 7 and I lugged all our gear into town to a little place I know that does a killer hot english breakfast. Check this sh*t:



5 minutes later:



When we'd finished we just sat there for a while, feeling it. The caffeine from from the coffee instantly attacked the virgin receptors in my brain, now that I think of it, I'm pretty sure they told us not to have any caffeine while the study drug is still in our system... might explain my feeling like crap. He went back to his backpackers hostel and I went home.

Upon entering my backyard I was greeted with a jungle of strange plants that I swear weren't there before... my neighbour gave me my mail, a huge bag, mainly bills and multitudes of annoying paperwork regarding my back injury. Then inside, where I unpacked, showered, and then just sat staring blankly. Wishing I was back there, killing everyone on Goldeneye. I wonder if my mood is somehow being affected by withdrawals from the study drug??

Oh and durrr I forgot to mention a big reason I've been kinda down is that my back has been f*cked. I reckon it happened when I bubbled on Day 41 and hit those water bottles in a frenzy... might have been too much. It's like, when your back is all screwed up it stops you from just being happy when you otherwise probably would be. I dunno, I just get really sick of it but all I can do is lay on my ass.

Sorry if I sound like a debbie downer, usually wouldn't write when in this mood but feel bad not giving updates. I feel f*cked, soooooo tired.... Hope everyone is well, will wrire more soon. I wanna dream of Philippine beaches and slooty nurses and cocktails and sex on the beach and check raising stupid tourists....

Not a proper English fryup unless your coffee looks like this:



and you smother your food in this:



Also: congrats on completing the trial!

That breakfast does more damage to your body than the medicines that they tested on you!

Actually, it is probably good that participants do not get paid right away. Most would probably blow a large portion of their "salary" rigth away.

Scottish breakfasts are so much better, still it makes a change from hospital food

Enjoyed the journey. Will try to check in from time to time to see how you treated the 8k. Good luck!

wasn't expecting such a quick update.
awful that you are feeling so crappy all around. it's another HUGE shift in life in general.
I am sure is will take a while to re-adjust mentally.
They didn't give you any pointers on what you might go through leaving the unit?
And then again in another 4 weeks.
Keep on dreamin'!

Hey man just keep this thread alive, atleast until you get bored as it doesn't feel the story has ended yet and the breakfast shots are jokes.

More updates god damn it!!

Depressing - but if you thought things would be different when you got out, you're delusional. Why are you moving back home? Why is poker still a goal?

I know you're an intelligent dude - You are also very stubborn. I know you've read Einsteins definition of insanity. Things don't change unless you do.

Can't wait for the thread 3 months from now where you've lost 8g's.

Congrats OP on making it outta there...
I hope you can enjoy the feeling of freedom soon.

BTW, please sound like a "debbie downer" as long as you think it's necessary. This thread is about you're true feelings in this journey, afterall.

+1

If it's not Scottish, it's crap.

If that is Scorps with Uli you should be feeling better. Gonna grind?

congrats for surviving the experiment, you fought bravely and I have nothing but respect for ya.

i rly wish you can be strong enough to follow a path that can bring you happiness and why not some cash along the way. maybe you could cre8 a blog in order to keep this thread clean and ppl could also help you along ur new life.