pain....

ok, so the topic of pain...and pain relief is in the news these days......i had a client beg me for tylenol to calm her migraine this morning........and i was mildly amused that she turned up her nose at my lone bottle of aspirin in my drawer.......aspirin is the original pain killer.....and yet there are those who spend lots of ready cash and insurance dollars on more sophisticated drugs that work in different ways toward the same end......pain relief......yesterday....my left wrist and hand was in absolute and outrageous pain.......probably arthritis....and i took 2 aspirins and went to bed.....and woke up just fine......i choose aspirin despite the stomach-bleeding business...because there are so few worstcase side effects...like liver damage...or heart attacks..........but there are lots of people who prefer vioxx or the like because of joint pain........and i believe they have the right to choose for themselves...pain versus heart attack....because pain is so personal as to defy description..........nobody has the right to legislate pain relief.........