With half his brain tied behind his back [Ann Coulter]

WND.com ^ | Oct 15, 2003 | Ann Coulter

[mykdsmom]

I had fairly extensive sinus surgery a year ago and can vouch for this. I was on a huge dose of Hydrocodone for 2 weeks all the time and then for the next 3 weeks at night only with Darvocet during the day.

I've had surgery before and have given birth 3 times w/o anesthesia and this surgery was by far the most painful thing I've endured. I started getting worried about being on the meds so long and kept asking my Dr. if it was ok.

He always asked if I was still in pain to which I answered yes, he said then don't worry about it, if you are in pain you need the drugs and it will eventually heal and the pain will go away.

He was right, but I sure did get some weird looks from my Pharmacist when I went for refills. They ended up calling him 3 separate times to make sure he really had authorized that amount of pain meds.

MKM

[mykdsmom]

Classic Ann....thanks for the Ping.

MKM

[Zipporah]

Well .. I would maybe not call it vicious but over the edge for sure. It's interesting that they call Rush basically a hypocrit.. when they ooze it.

[donmeaker]

Previous poster said "There is a fundamental difference between taking any drug – legal, illegal, prescription, protected by the 21st Amendment or banned by Michael Bloomberg – for kicks and taking a painkiller for pain."

You replied " Not to your body or brain there's not. It's all the same."

No, each drug has its own effects, its own interaction with your body your situation. My father had back surgery, and it seems like it was successful (so far) he was in agony.

Yes Rush, or my father, might have to take the pain killers for the rest of his life. Consider: People with diabetes take insulin for the rest of their life. People with HIV take their cocktail of drugs for the rest of their life. People with hemophilia take clotting compounds for the rest of their life. So long as Rush can function, can love, and can work, he should be allowed (and I encourage him to) get relief from oppressive unrelenting pain, in a manner that is selected by him and in accord with his values and mores.

There are treatments for the constipation that is the sole major side effect of these drugs (since he is already deaf, he can not have that effect anymore.) I don't care if Al Franken-cheapshot says he is full of manure. We love Rush, despite the infirmities to which the human flesh is heir.

Certainly he has enough money that he should be able to afford proper medical care. If he is not in pain, then fine, he will be happier if he shakes the monkey off. But the drugs are not the problem, it is the sad combination of persistant pain, and federal law that places legal restrictions on life giving medication that are the problem in my opinion.

[Sir Gawain]

Maybe I read the statement wrong, but I thought she was saying there was a difference in being addicted to the two.

[Sir Charles]

Thanks to those several who discussed the presence of pain and its affect on addiction. I took pain pills for about six months, percidan[sp]. The Dr said it was addictive but not to worry about it, but never explained why and I didn't ask. It never bothered me to quit once the back pain subsided.

What I think is very significant about this info is that it may caution someone who is taking pain pills for acute pain to realize that it is not immunity from addiction at work here, but the body's reaction to pain. I know this point has been made, but, in my case it is particularly revealing. I am an alcoholic who does not crave liquor, and quit cold turkey when internal bleeding almost killed me, and a smoker who can't quit. I shudder to think where I'd be if I fooled myself into thinking I could continue to enjoy the effects of pain pills, sans the pain, by fooling my doctor, and became addicted.

[Snuffington]

Ann at her best!

[loftyheights]

"Coulter never could write particularly well, and now it's clear she can't read with any facility, either."

Hey, no friend, get some serious help, okay?

[gogipper]

A couple of days the guest host spoke at length on the years of friendship that he had shared with Rush. If the media says you have no friends, how do you prove you do? Seems like slick character assasination rather than journalism (Ooops...they left out the Hitler worship, groping and dog kicking).

[gogipper]

A couple of days the guest host spoke at length on the years of friendship that he had shared with Rush. If the media says you have no friends, how do you prove you do? Seems like slick character assasination rather than journalism (Ooops...they left out the Hitler worship, groping and dog kicking).

[Timesink]

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[Brimack34]

I can not imagine go through this pain. Testing your pride, begging for help, maybe even offering money to people for help. All this plus dealing with deafness. To hear demons in your head. It must be hell. I pray for rush with all my heart!!!

[Lancey Howard]

Thanks for posting another masterpiece from Ann.

Mary Matalin summed up the same idea years ago when she noted that the American people were not outraged by Bill Clinton because everybody already knew going in that he was a lying scumbag. Nobody ever expected anything better from Clinton, and so how could they be surprised by anything he said or did?

[Lancey Howard]

[Cold Heat]

fooling my doctor, and became addicted.

Percodan is a hyrocodone drug mix. Not as addictive as Oxycodone by any means.

Anyone treated with a good sized dose of oxycodone for a month or more,(sometimes less) will have withdrawl symptoms.

Unfortunately some Dr's fail to caution patients or believe the addiction will be so mild it will not be noticable.

They have been educated stupid.

[Lancey Howard]

[Lancey Howard]

[radiohead]

By openly admitting to being philanderers, draft dodgers, liars, weasels and cowards, liberals avoid ever being hypocrites..."

That's going on my screen saver when I get back to the office. Good on ya, Ann!

[WorkingClassFilth]

If I had to follow the details of the liberal machinations as closely as Limbaugh does every day, I'd be eating pain pills like M&M's.

For all the lefties that have sprouted wood over Limbaugh's problems - go pound sand. Your hell is just begining...

He's coming back, he'll lose no audience and he'll probably gain even more.

[PGalt]

Great post. Thanks. Ann's work is outstanding!