Good to hear that Rush is on the road to recovery... can’t imagine how much more difficult it would be to reverse this socialist clown and his administration without Rush in the fight.
Three months ago I had to have surgery to relieve my back pain, which was a result of lower lumber stenosis. The decision to have surgery was one that took me seven years to get to, but at least it wasn’t in the cervical area... definitely a delicate and risky surgery that requires an extremely talented neurosurgeon.
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/31/prayers-for-a-friend/
I wrote last week about the excruciating pain that the disc rupture caused and the painkillers that doctors prescribed to ease the situation. Some of you wrote to caution me about Vicodin and Percocet and their addictive qualities. One person in particular wrote to me about his own addiction, and in particular gave me solid advice on physiological conditions that would indicate an addictive response from my body. Given the very public nature of his addiction, his note had one hell of a lot of impact on the decisions I have made this week.
That man is Rush Limbaugh.
He read my post and wanted to make sure that I took precautions with pain medication in order to avoid the problems that he faced in very public (and very overblown) fashion.
It takes a special kind of person to reach out in those circumstances to a man unknown to him just to help protect that man from a danger he might not see. That correspondence informed my decisions in the hospital to hold down my pain medication and to transfer to Ibuprofen as soon as possible. I’ve been fortunate; my pain since the surgery has allowed me to rely on the over-the-counter analgesic instead of the Vicodin and Percocet. Had I never heard from Rush, I might not have had the discipline to make that decision.