I do understand the financial strain that it puts on a family when you can't work and you need the second income. My ex left me largly due to financil strain of me not being able to work. I am thrilled that you are able to resume your life. I am hoping that I can some day too. As for now, I am a single parent that is on disability and has managed to support my family. We don't starve and that's the most important thing. And I have paid into DISABILITY...I was a Deaf Interpreter for many years.
Again, I thank you for standing up to that self-professed "doc". I don't understand how he could possibly have enough time to argue his point and read so much on this and be a phyisian. Something isn't kosher with him, I feel.
Tonya
>From: "K. Murray" <mkmurray@cyberport.com>
>Reply-To: adhesions@adhesions.org
>To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS
><adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
>Subject: Re: One More Log for the Fire
>Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 20:59:07 -0600
>
>Okay, I wasn't going to post anything to this mess but you have made me
>angry.
>First off, I went to Germany 5 weeks ago. This was a decision that was made
>after asking a lot of questions and talking it over with my own Dr. and
>discussing it with patients that had gone.
>As far as the narcotic use, most people that are in pain do not get
>"hooked.
> I worked in Substance Abuse until I had to quit because of of my illness.
>It is not an exchanging recipes as you say. When I was going to pain
>management, I would suggest a med that was helping someone on this site to
>my pain man. doc and we would try it to see if it helped me. He was open to
>any thing that was safe and would help.
>I was on Narcotics until my surgery in Germany and now I am off and have
>not
>had any problems getting off of them.
>Another thing, I have always been a hard worker having worked in the mental
>health and substance abuse field. I had to quit to stay home because of the
>pain. I thought seriously about collecting disability as it has crunched my
>family financially. You don't know how hard that is to have to do. But now
>I
>will be ready to go back to work in a few weeks. People that actually
>decide
>to collect disability don't know where to begin so they can ask here on
>this
>site. Now is that a problem??
>Some of us have other health problems such as Cystitus that seem to go
>along
>with adhesions that is why we talk about them on this site.
>You make us sound like a bunch of drug-using, money-grabbing, lazy,
>un-educated women .
>We could be your mother, sister, daughter or wife.
>So please do not put us down like that.
>Kelly
>-------Original Message-------
>
>From: adhesions@adhesions.org
>Date: Thursday, January 09, 2003 07:44:32 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS
>Subject: One More Log for the Fire
>
>I almost hate to say this, but I feel an odd sense of responsibity to
>bring it up. Maybe because I like to stir up the pot, but maybe also
>because I really think there maybe some bad players out there. I want
>my patients who may read this message board to know there are other
>opinions.
>
>I am disturbed by the number of posts on this site that deal with
>narcotic use. Some of the posts almost have an "exchanging recipes"
>feel to them. I prescribe narcotics regularly for patients with real
>pain, but am always worried about addiction. And someone with poor
>bowel motility surely doesn't need to be on chronic narcotics.
>
>I also am disturbed by the number of posts that describe in detail how
>to get money for your adhesion pain. Sure, if you are disabled from
>your adhesions, you should be able to collect what is yours. But there
>seem to be almost as many how-to posts on getting disability as there
>are discussions on the disease. There is even one post on how to get
>disability if you have interstitial cystitis (how is this connected??).
>
>.