Posted on 01/31/2017 12:46:34 PM PST by servo1969
I won’t tell my story of woe again, but I lost a husband and a son to Oxy. It’s awful stuff.
Dreadful. Prayers for his soul.
My sympathies to you, your stepsons, your entire family, and most of all to Bruce. May he find the peace he was seeking.
A person with real pain will not become addicted.......................
Almost everyone knows this story now, not yours in particular but know someone who’s gone off the deep end.
What a terribly sad story. May God have mercy on his soul.
This is the type of case where I absolutely stay away from passing judgement... I can only feel a tremendous amount of sympathy.
But it does help with my decision regarding cleaning my gutters. I’m calling someone experienced to do it.
And life in constant excruciating pain with no hope of ever alleviating it is not worth living.
In that situation, we can unite our suffering to Christ's, and it will not only be a golden path to heaven, but it can be offered for the suffering and salvation of others and sanctify the whole world. That life of pain is not only worth living--it is the life of a hero, the life of a saint.
"Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends."
We’re told suicide is a mortal sin, but I wonder if God is willing to look into a man’s heart and forgive him under these circumstances.
Referencing “scar tissue”.....just read the Pulitzer Prize book about American industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt....the richest man in America at the time.
He lived and died a painful death b/c scar tissue had formed on a procedure....and back then there was nothing to help him.
Heartbreaking — and unnecessary — story!
Terrible story, but what can be done? My wife is a medical doctor, and the amount of people seeking addictive drugs is staggering.
How can a medical doctor determine who is a druggie vs who is in deep pain?
The risk of losing your medical license is real, I have known two medical doctors who were deemed too liberal in their prescriptions and lost their licenses.
Adhesions are horrible. I spent 9 hrs in surgery while they removed all my intestines, cut them apart to remove the adhesions, and wrapped my intestines in Seprafilm to block adhesions from forming and then put me back together again.
I woke up during surgery with my arms still strapped to the boards and observed the panic of the surgery team.
I understand why Bruce did what he did and assure you that he is in a better place now. The big difference is that I had the opportunity to die, go to Heaven and return to my physical body. Heaven is so blissful, so peaceful, so wonderful that I did not want to return to my body. The thought of doing the same as Bruce in order to return to Heaven has crossed my mind many times as I experienced the despair of being back in my body.
Prayers for Bruce at this time are very helpful. When you are out of your body and someone says a prayer for you, you not only feel it but know who is saying the prayer.
If we had strict controls on who got them and insured that they were needed and not resold we could do a better job of reducing the suffering. It would mean a data base of every individual and subscription. Could be done.
That breaks my heart to read and I agree that terrible, unrelenting pain that could be relieved has to endometrial Gods mercy.
There has to be a way to solve this
Boy, I hope some doc FReepers weigh in. Both on diagnosis of and treatment for adhesions. Adhesiins can be dealt with. Wonder if this poor man might have benefited from a different approach. Prayers for him and his family.
If the pain is not too severe I have been able to tell my brain that the pain simply was not there.
However, there have been times when opioids would have been welcomed.
There was one which consisted of 5 mg. of something which I do not remember combined with 400 mg. of acetaminophen actually killed pain but did not put me to sleep nor make me feel like a zombie the following day. I wish I could remember the product which killed the pain.
I’m 74. The ladder accident that started this whole tragedy is why I hire somebody who’s younger and lighter to do ladder work around my place. Prayers for his soul.
I have thought this for awhile. Due to all of the addicts out there, the people who NEED these drugs are going to suffer. It actually makes me angry. I’m tired of the excuses the addicts give. Sure, some may have gone into addiction because of pain, but I don’t think that’s a majority of people. Just my opinion. And I don’t want to hear everyone’s horror story about their child, spouse, grandma, dog, etc. Bottom line is some people need these drugs and each case should be handled individually.
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