Fire it up

The Mighty + needs to be cleaned (with a brush that comes with the device)

To use, untwist the top and pop one capsule into the holder, close the top and press the orange button on the side.

The number on the bottom is the heat you are aiming for and you can change this easily with the up and down arrows.

Mighty advise 180 degrees

The number on the top is the current temperature which, when on will heat up quickly and beep once it gets to the correct temperature.

With the current mouth piece (which does not get hot) it is easy to draw the vapourised dried flower. Rather than fill your lungs which feels easy todo but then will end in a coughing fit, aim to fill half (or less to start) before exhaling.

You get a faintly visible white steam/smoke whilst it is still working. When it has run out the air you exhale will be clear. You can have a couple of puffs then turn it off and back on at a later time.

New toys

Things I have bought, my personal reviews and an amazon link to read more reviews

There are only two devices currently that have been legally approved to inhale vapourised dried flower; Mighty + medic and Volcano both made by Storz and Bickel who I personally could not fault their quality. I have not tried or seen the Volcano but have heard lots of users be extremely complimentary

Mighty + medic - Storz and Bickel sell a Mighty and Mighty +. The Mighty is smaller and not approved for legal use.

Mighty + feels solid in your hand and comes with all the bits you need - a few dosing capsules, cleaning brush, replacement gauze, charging wire etc. Battery lasts the day - so far very good. LOVE it it would be better if it came with a stand or had a flat bottom sturdy enough to balance upright. 9/10

ONE CAPSULE - some people have told me they just shove the grinded dried flower in the holder but I think that would cause more mess later down the line and I like having a million teeny capsules of ground flower in pretty capsule holders.

I was prescribed to take 1g a day initially in 0.1g doses. So I bought some accurate scales and forty small dosage capsules and some capsule holders as I am really lazy and this meant I could do one batch for measuring, filling and storing to last several days, and they were pretty colours so win win.

Accurate scales - these made me feel like a drug dealer. But can now use them to make my own herbal tea mixes too. Use the lid for all the mess - I am messy and get the medicine everywhere, but this lid has lovely curved edges perfect for tipping all the ‘lovely mess’ into a pot. 9/10

Capsule holders came with loads of bits - 6PCS Aluminum Pill Box Portable Metal Waterproof Keychain Pill Box Keyring Pocket Small Pill Case Container Holder Bottle Snuff Box Money Minder Keyring with Spoon Carabiner for Outdoor Traveling - which made it feel like good value. Spoons are really small but sweet and you get a carabiner and spoon with each capsule holder “pill pot”. Sometimes a bit squeaky tightening them up but that might be my slapdash aligning with the lid. 9/10

Forty small dosage capsules I thought this was excessive when I first decided NOT to buy them then got annoyed with only having one capsule and now LOVE my collection of teeny pots of lovely medicine. And for a large quantity of pots, they appear to be pretty decent quality. 10/10

Getting a presciption

“Your Curaleaf package will be delivered today by your local DPD driver. Remember your driver will need your PIN XXXX”.

A delivery driver was bringing a bag of ‘flower’ to my house. In the daytime. To me.

I had just had an operation (removing my ovaries and fallopian tubes), so still had pain meds in my system, I found this highly amusing.

There are rules with Medical Cannabis.

Curaleaf prescribe you a strain that is suited to your needs.

You have an online meeting (consultation) with a specialist Doctor, if eligible, they send you a prescription to pay for, then they deliver it to your home.

The Process

• Create an Account - this is done by linking via NHS (all legal) - by doing this it means they can have access to your medical records so can see what other medications you are on and what conditions you have which medical cannabis could help improve your quality of lfie.

• Complete a short set of questions and book an appointment - I paid £50 then decided it was better to do the £10 a month subscription (minimum of 3 months) so left a note demanding they did not charge me twice. They did not.

• I booked an appointment and was quite nervous. It felt really wrong and a little bit naughty. The consultation went really quickly and was fine, then Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) of doctors and pharmacists assessed whether medical cannabis was appropriate for me.

• A few days later they did, and I was sent a medical prescription.

• OH WOW. 20%THC cannabis. 20 grams. I thought this was rather a lot so ordered half costing £59.99 for 10g. Free delivery.

• It arrived a few days later with the DPD man, and it smelt and looked amazing.

• Now to play with my new toys

The yellow sticker

I have the BRCA 2 gene meaning I have a much higher chance of getting some cancers, including the silent killer Ovarian Cancer, that killed Nangie. I had a double Mastectomy in 2017 which has resulted in me having two party tricks.

1) If I place a torch on the side of my boob when it is dark they fully glow up bright pink/red

2) They don’t move. I can jump up and down, wear braless tops, possibly do a handstand. Still exactly where they were.

I knew I had to have some sort of surgery involving Ovaries etc lowering my cancer risk, early forties. So I did.

I was booked in early and honestly had the best time, yes they had given me exceptionally wonderful pain meds, but also I was given a team of just fabulous people. Every single nurse, carer, Dr was simply fantastic.

When getting prepared to go to theatre I had the usual checks, including ‘do you fall over a lot?’. “Nope, no I don’t”.

Shortly after I remember coming out of ‘recovery’ on a wheeled bed surrounded by several staff members and feeling just marvellous. I waved ‘like the Queen’ at every other patient minding their own business recovering peacefully in their room, occasionally informing them loudly with exasperated relief that I was in fact alive and that my Ovaries and Fallopian tubes had been removed.

We arrived at my room and they spun my bed around. I don’t remember this very clearly, but my husband does. A nurse said ‘we are going to go back into your room now’

“BEEP BEEP BEEP THIS BED IS REVERSING BEEP BEEP BEEP THIS BED IS REVERSING”. Yes, I was a robot bed.

I have had a few operations where you have to wear the stockings and have the blood thinning injections regularly, I did not like them. I need not have worried. ‘Would you like to try out these leg massagers? They reduce the risk of blood clots. So NO injections. YES PLEASE. They wrapped them round each leg separately and set them on massage mode - so so nice. They later came in to see if I ‘was bored of them’. Absolutely not. I felt like I had been taken to some exclusive spa where I was the only guest, and they fed you beautiful food and came in with syringes full of Oralmorph and every staff member was super smiley and happy.

I had a lovely time.

Oh, the yellow sticker. As I was leaving I noticed this yellow sticker on my door. I asked my husband why I had a yellow sticker. He told me that after I had said no to falling over he explained to the nurse that I had in fact fallen off my child’s scooter a few months previously and gauged half my knee flesh out, then subsequently fallen/tripped several times after that and made it re-bleed. The yellow sticker was warning them that I was a liability.

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