• Attention Drug Warriors

    From Joy Beeson@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 27 13:49:43 2023
    Spouse's pain killer finally cleared the paperwork that you approve of
    so heartily, and I picked it up just before noon today.


    If you are nodding sagely and saying that any sacrifice is worth it if
    it keeps drugs out of the hands of addicts and pushers, then you have
    no moral right, under any circumstances, to take any drug which has
    ever been taken recreationally or for a purpose that you disapprove
    of.



    --
    Joy Beeson
    joy beeson at centurylink dot net

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  • From John B.@21:1/5 to jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid on Fri Apr 28 05:50:05 2023
    On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 13:49:43 -0400, Joy Beeson
    <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:



    Spouse's pain killer finally cleared the paperwork that you approve of
    so heartily, and I picked it up just before noon today.


    If you are nodding sagely and saying that any sacrifice is worth it if
    it keeps drugs out of the hands of addicts and pushers, then you have
    no moral right, under any circumstances, to take any drug which has
    ever been taken recreationally or for a purpose that you disapprove
    of.

    Do you mean that in the U.S. even if a doctor proscribes a medicine
    that it requires some sort of additional approval before it can be
    given to the patient?
    --
    Cheers,

    John B.

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  • From pH@21:1/5 to Joy Beeson on Thu Apr 27 22:17:37 2023
    On 2023-04-27, Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:


    Spouse's pain killer finally cleared the paperwork that you approve of
    so heartily, and I picked it up just before noon today.


    If you are nodding sagely and saying that any sacrifice is worth it if
    it keeps drugs out of the hands of addicts and pushers, then you have
    no moral right, under any circumstances, to take any drug which has
    ever been taken recreationally or for a purpose that you disapprove
    of.




    Pain killers aside, is spouse all right? (obviously not...I mean will he
    *be* all right?)

    We do seem to have a *lot* of rules, regulations and limitations for being
    Land of the Free, Home of the Brave, don't we?

    pH

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  • From Joy Beeson@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 28 21:08:06 2023
    On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 22:17:37 -0000 (UTC), pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org>
    wrote:


    Pain killers aside, is spouse all right? (obviously not...I mean will he
    *be* all right?)


    The doctors thought that the surgery got all of the melanoma, but it
    being melanoma, they also prescribed radiation, which makes his leg
    very sore. It's been days since he walked away from his walker.

    Shortly before I picked up the medication, he told the X-ray guys that
    he couldn't take any more, and they said he'd had enough.

    What the practioner told me about the next step (which is like chemo,
    but not the same thing) went in one ear and out the other, but I
    gather that the worst side effect is fatigue.

    (News in while post was cooling: The next step has been moved up
    because the radiation ended sooner than expected.)

    Meanwhile, I'm very nervous when not at home. I took a short ride (a
    mexican grocery & the library) while he went to the radiation doctors,
    and when I texted that I was on the way back, he texted back that I
    should try to pick up the medication. The script had finally arrived,
    but I had to wait a while for them to fill it.

    Friday, 28 April 2023


    He's walking a little better today.


    --
    Joy Beeson
    joy beeson at centurylink dot net

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  • From John B.@21:1/5 to jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid on Sat Apr 29 08:51:48 2023
    On Fri, 28 Apr 2023 21:08:06 -0400, Joy Beeson
    <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:

    On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 22:17:37 -0000 (UTC), pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org>
    wrote:


    Pain killers aside, is spouse all right? (obviously not...I mean will he
    *be* all right?)


    The doctors thought that the surgery got all of the melanoma, but it
    being melanoma, they also prescribed radiation, which makes his leg
    very sore. It's been days since he walked away from his walker.

    Shortly before I picked up the medication, he told the X-ray guys that
    he couldn't take any more, and they said he'd had enough.

    What the practioner told me about the next step (which is like chemo,
    but not the same thing) went in one ear and out the other, but I
    gather that the worst side effect is fatigue.

    (News in while post was cooling: The next step has been moved up
    because the radiation ended sooner than expected.)

    Meanwhile, I'm very nervous when not at home. I took a short ride (a
    mexican grocery & the library) while he went to the radiation doctors,
    and when I texted that I was on the way back, he texted back that I
    should try to pick up the medication. The script had finally arrived,
    but I had to wait a while for them to fill it.

    Friday, 28 April 2023


    He's walking a little better today.

    I'm not a doctor and I never had chemo but I did break my pelvis at
    the left hip joint. I find that while medication does deaden the pain
    for a while a more lasting solution is stretching the joint, actually
    the leg movement, which leads, I suppose, to
    "looser" ligaments and less pain.

    I, once asked a doctor why, if exercise and stretching helped me why
    he had never mentioned exercise and stretching and he replied, "If I
    prescribe pain pills the patient will take them", "If I prescribe
    exercise the patient will..." and he just shrugged.
    --
    Cheers,

    John B.

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  • From pH@21:1/5 to Joy Beeson on Sat Apr 29 17:44:52 2023
    On 2023-04-29, Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
    On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 22:17:37 -0000 (UTC), pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org>
    wrote:


    Pain killers aside, is spouse all right? (obviously not...I mean will he
    *be* all right?)


    The doctors thought that the surgery got all of the melanoma, but it
    being melanoma, they also prescribed radiation, which makes his leg
    very sore. It's been days since he walked away from his walker.

    Shortly before I picked up the medication, he told the X-ray guys that
    he couldn't take any more, and they said he'd had enough.

    What the practioner told me about the next step (which is like chemo,
    but not the same thing) went in one ear and out the other, but I
    gather that the worst side effect is fatigue.

    (News in while post was cooling: The next step has been moved up
    because the radiation ended sooner than expected.)

    Meanwhile, I'm very nervous when not at home. I took a short ride (a
    mexican grocery & the library) while he went to the radiation doctors,
    and when I texted that I was on the way back, he texted back that I
    should try to pick up the medication. The script had finally arrived,
    but I had to wait a while for them to fill it.

    Friday, 28 April 2023


    He's walking a little better today.



    Best wishes for a speedy recovery. I recall that immunotherapy--of which
    your doctors must surely be aware--worked wonders for President Carter when
    he had melanoma a decade or so ago.

    pH

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  • From Joy Beeson@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 1 21:59:56 2023
    On Sat, 29 Apr 2023 17:44:52 -0000 (UTC), pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org>
    wrote:

    I recall that immunotherapy--of which
    your doctors must surely be aware--


    He had his first session today. I won't need to go with him for the
    second, which will be in three weeks.

    It's bedtime.

    --
    Joy Beeson
    joy beeson at centurylink dot net

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