Posted on 04/15/2013 4:08:48 PM PDT by SMGFan
When I was in college the athletic trainer gave me darvon for shin splints.
That night it seemed that my heart was beating irregularly. The trainer told me to quit taking it. I am still not sure if that is what caused my heart to seem to race then slow down but something did.
My arthritic mother leans on a regular shopping cart as she pushes it, she refuses to use an electric scooter, she says, she doesn’t want people to think she’s lazy. She’s 92 years old.
My Mom did that, too, age 94, until her leg problems grew too much for her to support herself. She was pretty cheerful until her death, except she had severe ulcers on her legs which were horribly painful and which ultimately forced her to be bedridden. It wasn’t pretty. She ran out of good days a couple of months before she died.
To be clear, I don’t begrudge anyone whatever they need. But I don’t support the endless medical scams going on in nearly every sector.
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