On 4/21/2016 1:06 PM, Califbill wrote:
Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 4/21/2016 12:28 PM, wrote:
I suppose you have all heard this, but 25,000 people died last year
from prescription drug overdose. That is more than twice as many as
the number murdered with guns.
Bear in mind the operative word is "prescription".
When you add 18,000 "illegal" drug users who died, this looks like a
pretty big problem.
Another way to say it is doctors and big pharma are almost 140%
deadlier than the illegal drug cartels.
I suppose the big government fans will say we just need more cops and
more laws.
I think it may just be Darwin in action. We are culling out the weak
and defective.
Ironic for me that you posted this. Mrs. E. fell off a stool she was
standing on last evening and received (what we thought) was a pretty
good and painful bone bruise. Didn't appear to be broken based on my
elementary first aid training. But, this morning she was still in
considerable pain so off to the hospital we went. X-rays showed a
break in the upper arm bone (humorous) just below the shoulder
ball.
They don't use a cast for this kind of break. She will be wearing
a sling for quite a while and will be attending physical therapy every
morning while they monitor how it is healing.
They gave her a prescription for "Percocet". I never knew that Percocet
is Oxycondone with Tylenol. I always thought Percocet and Oxycondone
were two different narcotics.
She's going to try not taking it, just relying on plain Tylenol. She
told the doc that she didn't want it but he insisted on writing
the prescription for it anyway. He told her if she didn't feel she
needed it, don't bother getting the prescription filled.
Based on how she is feeling right now, I suspect she will want
something stronger than Tylenol tonight.
Same break I did a month ago. She will need the Norco a couple times,
trust me. My doc gave me a prescription for 800 mg Motrin. She should
probably get that. Is both a pain reliever and anti-inflammatory. Worst
part is wearing the sling, let's all the muscles shorten up, so PT for
that. Mine has cracks in to the shoulder ball, which hurts getting that
part working again.
I was with her while they took the X-Rays. The tech put the first on on
the display screen and involuntarily reacted with a minor gasp.
I asked her if it was broken and she said she was not allowed to say
anything, however I was welcome to study it myself. Didn't take any
special training to see that break. Right below the ball.