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Disability

irisblue

(34,578 posts)

4. no, it's not funny at all.

Reply to brucefan (Reply #2)

Thu Nov 5, 2015, 01:12 PM

Nov 2015

I know a few people who could use opioid pain control/relief to be able to participate more fully in life, and their doctors won't prescribe adequate properly applied medicines. Watching my mom try to walk, using a walker, knowing both her knees are bone on bone, and at age 84, her dr has told her to take ibuprofen. Makes me sad and frustrated, hence the venting.