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This week's *The New Yorker* magazine available at www.newyorker.com features a "humorous" piece called "Please Read Before Suing" by Larry Doyle. It mocks an imaginary Q and A of "Dr's Goodbody's Total Goodbody Sytem" and in parts is somewhat funny.
What surprized me is that the following is presumably considered humorous by its author.
"$750 for a thirty-day supply? That's $25 a pill. Isn't that a lot of money? -J. Lowell, Charlottesville, VA.
Not when you consider that that comes to just about a dollar an hour- a dollar for an hour free of all your pains and complaints. Wouldn't you pay a dollar to feel like a million bucks? You'd have to be crazy not to."
So I wonder how old the author is. You'd kind of like to let him walk in the shoes of one of us for 24 hours. The meds are too expensive. But that doesn't mean we don't require them.
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ffww, love your new signature line! you rock girl!
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I am not sure of YOUR point.
I would agree that there are cheaper and just as effective pain meds for ALOT cheaper $$'s.
I take two Tramadol and spend $14.00 a month or there abouts. I could take 4-6-or 8 of them a day if I wanted to and still not come up to much over what one pill of the 'new' generation,new modern drugs,,,that may have a place,,but try the cheapies first.
NOT getting pain meds is NOT an option and we ALL need them,one way or another.
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Betty, Feel free to use "Help or Be Helpless" too. I borrowed it with permission from Siz.
Don, I guess my point is that I don't think a price can be put on relieving someone's excruciating pain. Some people can be helped with inexpensive meds, some can't.
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I agree with both your points, although I don't know how you can survive with just 2 trams a day don..that's pretty brave!
I believe that whichever meds work best (and useful ones can be few and far between) are the best option! Then again, I don't pay my bills...so there you go!
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quote:Originally posted by FightFireWithWater: This week's *The New Yorker* magazine available at www.newyorker.com features a "humorous" piece called "Please Read Before Suing" by Larry Doyle. It mocks an imaginary Q and A of "Dr's Goodbody's Total Goodbody Sytem" and in parts is somewhat funny.
What surprized me is that the following is presumably considered humorous by its author.
"$750 for a thirty-day supply? That's $25 a pill. Isn't that a lot of money? -J. Lowell, Charlottesville, VA.
Not when you consider that that comes to just about a dollar an hour- a dollar for an hour free of all your pains and complaints. Wouldn't you pay a dollar to feel like a million bucks? You'd have to be crazy not to."
So I wonder how old the author is. You'd kind of like to let him walk in the shoes of one of us for 24 hours. The meds are too expensive. But that doesn't mean we don't require them.
Someone just directed me to this, and I thought a couple of things were worth commenting on.
The piece wasn't about a prescription drug, or any kind of pain reliever. Quite obviously, it is about some kind of alternative health product designed to detoxify and clean your colon. It wasn't a comment on drug prices, and it certainly wasn't suggesting in any way that people who need drugs shouldn't have them.
I realize you're suffering, but you need to not see everything through that prism.
By the way, I'm 48. And fwliw, I had Lyme disease last spring. Caught early, treated, and so far I'm fine.
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this is how i responded to larry in my PM to him!
larry, i welcome folks here and give them some basic stuff and more to get them on the road to KNOWLEDGE IS POWER in our CHRONIC LYME disease. i'm sending you a private message, pm, with my 45 pages now of newbie links/advise.
after you stated you are 48, i could not understand any of your abbreviations! would you edit your post above by clicking on PENCIL ICON opening up body text, and then spell out what your abbreviation stands for since so many of us have NEURO lyme. i thank you larry. click edit send when done.
HOW ABOUT SOME SERIOUS WRITING ON CHRONIC LYME DISEASE and our precious LLMDS, LYME LITERATE MDS going to continuous state health dept. hearings where they are trying to take away their license to practice and treat us CHROINC LYME "KIDS" AND ADULTS ??
interested, read more in ACTIVISM forum; look about DR. JONES AND DR. JEMSEK ;
jones hearings have been going on almost 2 years! they've both lost all their savings, homes, assets, and both still practicing by the grace of God!
please start a post here about my suggestion to you larry ! we've also got 2 bills again in DC legislation that were restarted after not being acted on after 3 yrs. there last 12-06!!
glad you visited our site and commented on your article you wrote giving us some insight! thank you.
how long were you treated using antibiotics, and did you see an infectious MD or one of our precious LLMDS? be careful you may NOT have been treated long enough and more symptoms will be back to hit you again as it has done us all.
at least you got PROMPT TREATMENT! did you see the tick? did you luck out and have the bulls-eye rash so you got to md fast? we didn't see a tick nor have a bulls-eye rash! bettyg ***********************************
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