However, I just had the worse weekend of my life. My beloved
Rottweiler and close companion started screaming in pain last Friday
night. He could barely move and I just tried to comfort him as best as
I could until the vet would be open on Monday. On monday I took him to
be put down as I couldn’t stand to watch him suffering. The vet and
technician were absolutely awesome and let me know there was no reason
to put him down. He obviously is suffering from severe arthritis but
with proper steroids and pain medication he can be made comfortable.
Now granted this is a dog I love dearly – but the vet can give him pain
medication and controls to!
As I watched my poor loved dog suffering I had to wonder what is wrong
with our society? We are so concerned about saving an addicts life
that we are willing to let honest, in pain, suffering humans have not
the relief we are able to give! Forget the addicts – if they want to
die so be it! We need to stop unnecessary suffering. To a lot of
people he was jut a dog but he woke my eyes up! No one deserves to
suffer to help people justify their jobs – forget the addicts and focus
on human suffering! The Canine Dog Training is what some people go for to get their dog well behaved from a young age itself.
Fortunately my dog is still with me but he is getting the medicines he
needs that most humans can’t right now! He has gone from crying and
screaming nonstop to less than 2 times in a 24 hour period! Is it
because it is a vet my dog can be taken care of? Some thing is
definitely wrong! Don’t get me wrong, i love my dog but lets treat
humans just as humane!
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Maybe we can’t afford to get to DC but a virtual march on Washington has a good effect, too. As for being afraid of being labeled by speaking up, we are at a point now where the choice will become speak up for change or lose what pain relief one has – who knows where that could lead, but nowhere pleasant. Fact is we are labeled already so why not speak your truth? I’m ready and hope many more are, too!r
In all honesty, Donna, most of us can’t afford to be known publicly, and neither can our families! Some of us have businesses, which will then be labeled “drug addicts”, others simply can’t afford to fly to Washington, or our state capitals because we spend so much money for insurance and doctor copays, etc. It’s not that simple. I would venture to guess that 99% of the people who you comment on these and so many other sites are under assumed names for that very reason. We can’t afford to lose what we have!! Also, many of our family members already think that we are addicts, or don’t know, because they have been propagandized by everything written. Remember, it’s not what is true, it is what you read often enough! This is a very complicated subject, which doesn’t have an easy answer. But that is the best that I can answer you, as to why we don’t march, or our families don’t march for us.
For the life on me.. I don’t understand why people won’t march? If the person has pain and can’t march, why won’t their family members, friends do it for humanity?
It’s not a shameful cause. Join a pain advocacy group and help them organize a march.
The addicts families are standing for them in Washington but negative media has people feeling shame? Politicians are NOT supporting their fellow man but instead are making big bucks causing suffering pain on constituents, and getting away with it.
Heads in the sand again?
Siobhan Reynolds was a great woman and did speak in Washington for her suffering husband and others including supporting doctors who treat pain.
We need more people like her willing to speak out for Human and CIVIL RIGHTS..
Where are they?? Very few willing.. Heads in the sand once again?
It’s odd, Steve, that we can have a march on Washington for civil rights, or a Milion Man March for young men to man up to their responsibilities, but at no time have I heard of, much less seen, a march against pain! Really—two million people should march to the Lincoln Memorial and demand freedom from the slavery of pain, a bondage as certain as that enforced by the nineteenth-century slave drivers. Hell, there should be TWENTY MILLION people attending such a march!
Thanks for the rare empathy and for caring for man’s best friend
I went through a similar situation my dog had to have surgery and was give pain pills after her surgery for a two week period. I have a chronic condition and can barely get anything so my dog whom I love dearly has a good life while I suffer everyday with no quality of life! Wow
Glad to hear that your dog is doing better. I have dogs and I love my dogs. I know what it is like to care for a dog and not want to see them in pain. It is a sorry state of affairs in this country when people in pain cannot be treated as humanely as a dog. There are always going to be people that abuse the system. It is inevitable and the DEA and everyone else that tries is not going to stop some drug diversion. But, in this crazy, over zealous effort to stop drug diversion, people that really need the pain meds are not being able to get it.
Well said, I totally agree.
Glad to hear your beloved doggie is still with you and not suffering.
Now, let’s try and work together as human beings to treat human beings the same way that we treat our pets.