Stumble It!A Rule to Live By
Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 04:39PM There is no painful situation which is not improved by the clever and judicious use of pharmaceuticals.
Queen2 apparently has an oyster somewhere in her ancestry, and she has suffered from several kidney stones in the past few months. She says the pain is not as bad as unmedicated childbirth (to which I say, who wants to find out?), but still, it hurts. Nonetheless, she has texted me from the ER, Dilaudid on board, to say she thinks she is going to survive the experience again. I am sorry for her and happy that so far and knock wood, I haven’t had the pleasure of kidney stones. Opiates don’t seem to work on me, at least the more modest ones I’ve had prescribed for me.
But for those of you who have experienced the outer edges of acute or chronic pain, remember to say a prayer of thanksgiving for those big, evil pharmaceutical companies. They are constantly on the alert, living up to the motto: Better living through pharmceuticals.
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Got any red hair in your family?
I recently read about a study which confirmed something which has been anecdotally circulated amongst anesthesiologists for eons:
Redheads are harder to put under; i.e., they have a higher tolerance for anesthesia (and pain medication as well), sometimes requiring 20-30 percent more to achieve equivalecy to the average bear.
This study determined that there's a genetic marker which is associated with this trait, and it's in over 90 percent of readheads and almost 30 percent of brunettes.
I'm doing all this off the top of my head, so the numbers might not be dead on the mark. The overall description, however, is accurate.