Do what you have to do to get what you need. Originally Posted by teeituptom Do you want someone under the use of narcotics driving a car.
Do you want a nurse using narcotics to control pain to take care of your family members
To be truthfull for myself I have to answer....No
I do feel sorry for your problems though. There are areas that you can go into not involving patient care though, that you can do. Insurance comapnies love haveing nurses for audits and such. So do Shysters.
Do you want a doc performing surgery on you while in severe pain, needing to sit down,perhaps lie down for a few minutes to regain focus? I'd prefer to have my surgery done by a surgeon who is comfortable and not hastening the procedure to get it over with. Of course in the ideal world, health care providers ignore and overcome the pain with their stoic character.
Believe me, I'm there, and the pain is getting worse. I don't volunteer info to anyone, I am not cloudy due to narcs, relif of pain helps me to focus on what I should be doing. Believe me, no one is going to give you a gold star or blue ribbon for living in constant inescapable pain. You will simply realize that when the end of your life comes, you had never lived, to paraphrase Thoreau.
Or you may end up putting a bullet in your own head when you have no more reserve to live with it.
So my message is that when quality of life is poor at best you have nothing to lose by lying, cheating, falsifying or whatever it takes to get by those employers or agencies who would exclude you from the human race. And being in a position of having nothing to lose is quite liberating if you think about it. It takes a great load off if you accept that you can't improve your lot. (I am not talking about stealing drugs or forging scripts or anything of the sort. I am talking about prescriptions administered by competent physicians.)
What are the "good people" in a position to do about it if they catch you using a prescription at work? Make you more miserable than you already are?
Don't just stand and take it. Be a troublemaker if needs be, and choose your battles wisely.
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