Text 49105, 116 rader
Skriven 2007-04-03 12:03:15 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 49089 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
Ärende: Headache
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02 Apr 07 20:33, mark lewis wrote to Roy Witt:


 JD>>> Of course they would.  Some people simply refuse to see a
 JD>>> doctor, no matter what.  Intelligence has nothing to do with
 JD>>> it.

 BF>>> Lack of trust in the medic-care system may be one reason no to
 BF>>> see a doctor. Lack of fundings if medic-care isn't free can be
 BF>>> another...

 ml>> both of those are the top two on my highly existing list of
 ml>> reasons...

 RW>> I don't know why...are you old enough to be collecting Social
 RW>> Security? If not, then you have no idea what medi-care would be
 RW>> able to do for you.

 ml> i believe that you've misread what bjorn was attempting to say... i
 ml> didn't take is as medicare like many americans think of it... i took
 ml> it as an abbreviated form of saying medical care...

Since he called it a system, it was obviously another slam on the US
health care system.

 ml> no matter, anyway, as i _don't_ go to see any kind of medical persons
 ml> unless i'm really really really hurting and have no other choice...

So, you want to die young...See the doctors, get second and even third
opinions, then consider the treatment vs living with it.

 ml>> and they are also foremost on my mind these days since i
 ml>> experienced throwing my back out (again) while talking to "ralph"
 ml>> during a bout of gastrointestinal infection of some kind...

 RW>> Alcohol related perhaps.

 ml> doubtful... this was some sort of virus that has been going around...

Ok.

 ml>> that was two months ago :(

 ml>> can't afford it...

 RW>> Go to a free clinic.

 ml> no such thing around here... they all want at least $50 at the end of
 ml> the visit... kinda hard to do that when you've been out of work for 2
 ml> months or more and things have tightened up quite a bit...

Then you better get yourself down to the SS office and sign up for SSI.
That's for a disability, not social security. Once you're on that, apply
for state aide, that'll help buy groceries and will help you with medical
needs. If they give you food stamps, reserve the peanut butter for me.

 ml>> will not allow surgery...

 RW>> That's not Medi-cares fault or prolem.

 ml> wrong medic-care (note the spelling)...

There's no such entity. There is a medi-care system though.

 ml>  and even so, why do you think they call what doctors and laywers do
 ml> "practise" :)

Because one cannot become a professional in an ever changing science.
Only the basics are set in stone, the rest is not.

 ml>>  and absolutely will not commit fraud by lying to them and telling
 ml>> them that i will pay for it when i know that i can't and won't be
 ml>> able to if/when i am able to return to work...

 RW>> Then you have no bitch coming. You should apply for welfare and
 RW>> state aide, where you can then get medical treatment for your back.
 RW>> It will even cover a bone doctor to help you.

 ml> i suppose that's possible... however, i've not seen anything
 ml> regarding anything like that as a possibility...

Look into SSI.

 ml>>  i don't make enough to pay for a hospital bill that is more than my
 ml>> yearly take home wages... and i've not yet brought myself to truely
 ml>> considering filing for disability so that i can at least try to get
 ml>> some treatment or at least some meds to help things out...

 RW>> Sounds like it's that time.

 ml> you may be right...

 ml>>  it really suck when you can't stand for more than a few minutes and
 ml>> forget about standing straight up unless holding on to something to
 ml>> take the weight off the hips and lower back...

 RW>> Easy home remedy. Make yourself a shoulder harness that will
 RW>> support you under the arms while you hang from a doorway. A few
 RW>> minutes will work wondrs.

 ml> tell me about it :)

I'm not talking about hanging yourself to commit suicide. Hanging yourself
in the above manner will allow your pelvis and legs to stretch the
backbone enough to give you some relief. Don't tie it around your neck and
jump off a chair though. :o)

               R\%/itt



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