>----- Original Message -----
From: "cathy:-" <anonymous@medispecialty.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
<adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 3:27 PM
Subject: 'you can't stay on those pain meds forever, you know'
> Kim, a couple of weeks ago you said something and I almost wrote this
> then, so now I'm just gonna come out with it. You said that the doctors
> keep telling you things like "you can't stay on those pain meds forever,
> you know." The next time some idiot says this here's what I think you
> should do:
>
> Jump up, grab the weasel by the throat, and drag him across the desk
> until his nose is a half-inch away from yours. Then, as loud as you
> can, scream in his face the following, "OF COURSE I HAVE TO STAY ON PAIN
> MEDS FOR THE REST OF MY MISERABLE LIFE!!!!! BECAUSE YOU AND ALL YOUR
> OTHER BUDDIES THE BUTCHERS HAVE CRIPPLED ME FOREVER WITH YOUR HACK
> JOBS!!!!"
>
> Look, suppose you had surgery with spinal or epidural anesthesia, and
> there was a terrible accident with the anesthetic that left you
> paralyzed. (This is a tragic and rare complication that nonetheless
> DOES happen.) If a few years later some doc looked at you and said "you
> can't stay in the wheelchair forever, you know," you wouldn't just nod
> in agreement. You'd tell the f***ing moron to get his head out of his
> a**!!!
>
> You could do this "doctor continuing education" service yourself, or
> maybe your husband could do it. (Your husband wouldn't happen to be
> 6'6" and 250lbs, would he? cathy snickers an evil snicker when picturing
> some large husband with a doctor-weasel by the throat...)
>
> You know this right to adequate pain relief isn't just about drugs. It's
> also about the right to be treated by doctors who actually treat your
> problems instead of whatever their stupid fantasies of your problems
> are. (What is it with the fantasies? Maybe when your head is up there
> where the sun don't shine it's hard to separate fantasy from reality.)
>
> cathy :-)
>
> At Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Kim wrote:
> >I am terrified that one day the doctors will say no more
> >pain medication and then I don't know where I will be.
>