RSS feed for comments on this post.
The URL to TrackBack this entry is: http://themoderatevoice.com/6708/a-prominent-conservative-blogger-is-hospitalized-with-back-problems/trackback/
Line and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, HTML allowed: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>
0.058 Powered by WordPress
Joe,
Where is the sympathy for the Capitain. Rush deserves nothing but scorn. As a Liberal/Libertarian I enjoy the Captain but Rush is scum. Maybe you should add Iran to the title to illicit more response.
Comment by Rudi — June 19, 2006 @ 1:33 pm
A Prominent Conservative Blogger Is Hospitalized With Back Problems
Knife from a friend? One can hope can’t they?
Comment by Chippedchips — June 19, 2006 @ 4:51 pm
That was very nice of Rush to take the time to write to the Captain personally. I read the comments, and while I know that addiction is a risk that needs to be considered, it troubles me that so many people seem to be absolutely scared to death to use these drugs for fear of addiction. A couple of the commentors at Captain’s Quarters did come out in favor of not being afraid to use narcotics responsibly.
The truth is that there are a number of situations where a narcotic is the only thing strong enough to treat the pain effectively. Migraines are one of those situations. For many years, I have suffered from frequent chronic migraines. When they got really frequent, I was placed on Depakote and went from having 2-4 migraines a week to 2-4 per month. Due to a sulfa allergy, I’m not a candidate for Imitrex, etc. to stop breakthrough migraines. When I became unexpectedly pregnant last year, I had to stop the Depakote immediately, and I started spending 3-4 days a week with bad migraines. It turns out that narcotics are about the only thing that can be used safely to treat a migraine that has already started in a pregnant or nursing mother. Once we got the dosage adjusted, which included following my neurologist’s advice not to wait until the pain was already unbearable but to take the drug as soon as I knew that the headache wasn’t going away on it’s own, everything was much better.
It’s ironic that this post should be here today, because as I sat down and read the post, I was trying to decide whether or not I needed to take a Lortab. I eventually did decide to take it, and it’s starting to take effect about now. As a result, I won’t be able to drive, but I will be more functional in general than I would have been otherwise, and I’ll have a nice evening with my children instead of of being cross and irritable with them.
I do realize that there is a major problem in this country with people abusing prescription narcotics, but it really frustrates me that, because of this, most doctors are really, really reticent to prescribe narcotics to people like me who genuinely need them and can use them responsibly. It also makes me sad that some people are afraid even to try such drugs when prescribed, even when they are in so much pain that they really need something that strong. I suspect that part of that is that people have been over-educated about the addictive nature of narcotics but not educated at all about the difference between physical and psychological addiction to a drug.
I don’t know how I always manage to write such long comments. Sorry. Going to go watch Seabiscuit with the kids.
Comment by Isidora — June 19, 2006 @ 6:34 pm
Maybe Rush can share some his Oxycontin stash with the Captain.
Comment by Rudi — June 19, 2006 @ 7:12 pm
I had my last vertabrae slip 1/4 inch out of place a little over 2 years ago. The pain was excurciating, so I have sympathy for anyone suffering with this kind of pain. My advice is to avoid surgery since it usually cures nothing, and brings on further surgery. I went to a chiropractor and got therapy instead, and in less than 2 weeks my pain, and numbness was entirely gone (I had degraded feeling in several toes before this), and have had no reoccurance since. So to anyone with this kind of problem I reccommend chiropratic therapy over the knife, and most definately don’t rely of drugs to mask the obvious problem. If that doesn’t help then you have a much bigger problem, and should seek further help.
Comment by Pyst — June 19, 2006 @ 7:22 pm
Pyst, my sympathy on your back. I threw my back out in a major way when I was 11, and my parents never did understand what pain I was in, so I never saw any sort of doctor for it. Fortunately, it healed on it’s own in about 10 years or so. But, man…one quarter inch out of alignment – that’s really huge. I can’t imagine the pain, etc. That must have looked interesting on the x-ray. You should have seen my first x-ray from the chiropractor – my occiput, atlas, and axis were all tilted crooked in relation to each other.
After my daughter was born, I started seeing a chiropractor, and the whole family has been going for years now. We started taking our new baby when she was was four or five days old.
I definitely second your recommendation to try chiropractic first. It’s certainly improved my general level of wellness, but, quite unfortunately, it is not the solution for my migraines, and I have to rely on several drugs. OTOH, some people are able to completely get rid of their migraines with proper chiropractic care.
I certainly agree with you that it’s a bad idea to rely on drugs to mask problems, but painkillers, anti-inflamatories, and muscle relaxants can be useful to treat severe symptoms for a few days to a few weeks (hopefully not necessary for as long as a few months), not to cover up the problem, but to keep the patient comfortable while the real problem is being solved. My first chiropractor had some sort of a joint practice with an M.D. specializing in pain treatment, and I thought that such a collaboration was great. (I never needed the M.D. myself.) In any case, I ended up moving on to a different chiropractor who is much more agressive in his treatment strategy (which has been more effective) and also has much more efficient appointment management, so it’s easy to get in and out pretty quickly. However, he seems to be more or less completely anti-drug and anti-conventional medicine for just about any reason. It seems to me that a lot of chiropractors are like this. Oh well. I just try to combine the best of both approaches to get something that works for me.
Comment by Isidora — June 20, 2006 @ 1:11 am
Speaking of mr. limbaugh…here is an actual word for word transcript from one of his radio talk shows back in 1988…and no, this is not a joke or fraud. I recorded it off Dallas, WBAP 820 AM Talk/News radio.
limbaugh:
“And now the liberals want to stop President Reagan from selling chemical warfare agents and military equipment to Saddam Hussein, and why? Because Saddam ‘allegedly’ gassed a few Kurds in his own country.
“Mark my words. All of this talk of Saddam Hussein being a ‘war criminal’ or ‘committing crimes against humanity’ is the same old thing. LIBERAL HATE SPEECH! And speaking of poison gas . . . I SAY WE ROUND UP ALL THE DRUG ADDICTS AND GAS THEM.”
Rush Limbaugh, Nov. 3, 1988
Oh how time and U S politics change. Its a real GAS!
Comment by Chippedchips — June 20, 2006 @ 1:25 pm
“here is an actual word for word transcript from one of his radio talk shows back in 1988…and no, this is not a joke or fraud. I recorded it off Dallas, WBAP 820 AM Talk/News radio.”
Uh huh. Sure you did Mr. Pearson.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/limbaugh2.asp
Claim: Talk show host Rush Limbaugh’s 3 November 1988 broadcast included a statement approving the selling of chemical warfare agents to Saddam Hussein and the gassing of drug addicts.
Status: False.
Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2004]
And now the liberals want to stop President Reagan from selling chemical warfare agents and military equipment to Saddam Hussein and why? Because Saddam “allegedly” gassed a few Kurds in his own country. Mark my words. All of this talk of Saddam Hussein being a “war criminal” or “committing crimes against humanity” is the same old thing. Liberal hate speech! And speaking of poison gas… I say we round up all the drug addicts and gas them too!
Rush Limbaugh, November 3, 1988
Origins: A time-honored method of discrediting one’s political opponents is to put words in their mouths — to make it appear they once said something which now paints them as foolish, hypocritical, or just plain wrong. In that vein comes the current item, a quote that supposedly doubly tags conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh as a hypocrite: first for justifying the sale of chemical warfare agents (i.e., “weapons of mass destruction”) to Saddam Hussein and then supporting the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq to rid that country of such weapons, and second for suggesting that drug addicts should be dealt with harshly and then admitting his own addiction to prescription pain medication.
Whatever opinions Mr. Limbaugh may have expressed on his radio program over the years regarding arms sales to Saddam Hussein and the social issue of drug addiction, the item cited at the head of this page is not a genuine transcript of something broadcast on his show on 3 November 1988. It’s actually a lampooning taken from the comic strip The Boondocks.
Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder often employs the device of running “Classic Boondocks” strips, which are supposedly past examples of his work dug out of the archives and offered up to his audience once again. The gimmick is that “Classic Boondocks” aren’t really older versions of Boondocks strips being run for a second time — they’re freshly-created material backdated and presented as strips from years gone by as a method of drawing attention to and commenting upon current political issues. Thus the 1 August 2004 version of the strip purports to be a re-run of a strip “originally printed November 3, 1988″ in which the Huey character listens to a radio broadcast by “some guy named Rush Limbaugh,” who speaks the words quoted at the head of this page.
Although the political intent of the 1 August 2004 Boondocks strip was clear, the context that it was not really a repeat of a strip from 3 November 1988 and did not report something Rush Limbaugh actually said over the airwaves on that date went missing in action, and the text of the strip has since been passed around the Internet as if it were a genuine transcript of a portion of a 1988 Rush Limbaugh broadcast.
Comment by Jerry — January 11, 2007 @ 6:52 am
Dutch Taxes and the fiscal system…
Everything you need to know about the dutch tax system…
Trackback by Taxes — September 17, 2009 @ 2:28 am