Taking a month or so to sift through libraries and web sites to compile enough authoritative information to produce a long, long post on a blog to make that point is a very, very intimidating task.
A columnist might tell a personal anecdote about lying in a hospital bed and, motivated by a fear of becoming a junkie, telling the nurses that the doctor would monitor the use of morphine. A columnist might even remember the experience as an exercise in futility saying: "To the best of my ability to recall; the morphine didn't' provide much pain relief nor did it provide any "high.'" Yeah a broken bone hurts but the question "who wants to risk becoming a drug fiend who will do anything to get the money for his next "fix'?" is a powerful motivating factor when it comes to deciding about a chance to get more of a not very effective medicine?
The nurses observed that our attitude was very different from others who would constantly beg for more and more painkillers. Many nurses wanted to tell the babies: "Suck it up, wimp."
Until recently we had not seen or heard anything in the mainstream media that would corroborate this medical assertion, but then we caught an installment of the Korel show on KKGN and he did indeed say flat out pain killers have two distinctly different effects on people. One for those in pain; a different one for those not in pain. We tried to contact him to get some back up fact checking, quotes and sources, but our effort was unsuccessful so we have to use "hearsay" for our evidence.
Now, maybe it's time to start doing the keystrokes necessary to revise and polish a manuscript fondly known as "my memoirs"?
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