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Zen and the Love of Hockey
| December 15th, 2014 at 11:33:09 AM permalink | |
| petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | Yeah, my narcotics are "free", and they were a great benefit for awhile. Like a lot of things, first hand knowledge of the harm they do is a lot different then reading or hearing about it. People seem more aware of the illegal street users and those problems. It's more intense right up close and personal, when the tolerance goes parabolic and they actually start to increase the pain. The kicker is when your colon goes ischemic. My gastroenterologist was talking to me about another ostomy just last week,and I believe long term use is somehow a contributing factor to cancer.
My father in law who passed two years ago, loved going to the gym, 3 days per week. He would be at the door waiting for it to open in the morning. The man was morally and physically a living example of how people should be. He also swam on the days he didn't lift weights. He went in the hospital for his 4th pacemaker procedure [they put in the wrong one] and caught pneumonia there and in his reduced condition from heart surgery, it killed him. So I don't know about the reduced cost of our old people. They seem to live long enough to need 2-6 new hips, and pacemakers, knees and appliances for a long time. Its guys like Face or myself who go ahead and burn the candle at both ends [with a torch] that do cost society some money up front, but usually go ahead and die like people are supposed to. Knock 20-30 years off of a life hard lived, that adds up to quite a bit of savings to the "sick care" system. The guy is an asshole, I tell ya. Must not have had a "real" job. The best boat is borrowed. The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |