if you want to get technical about it, don't do cough syrup. Cough syrup has "meth."

Meth can refer to lots of things, mainly a type of amphetimine, and is very bad stimulant. Crystal meth is what you get on the street. It gets its name b/c it is basically street meth (crushed up diet pills, any stimulant, sometimes dirty things like shoe polish, kerosene, etc.) added to the mix are crushed up quartz crystals, because people think they give extra energy. They give extra brain damage. People seriously, the speed they will give you at the doctor, OTC, etc. is bad enough. Who would cook it all up together?

Oh, no, I just haven't tried yet. I was just teasing about the vicodan :p. I guess I'll translate over my lunch break.

I've never not planned to get an epidural :P Actually, technically what happened to my knee was that the patella had a severe lateral tilt which caused all my medial hamstring tendons to go into spasm. No doctor could figure out what was wrong. I couldn't sit, couldn't stand, couldn't walk, couldn't run etc. etc. Because of my age, my doctors thought that I couldn't possibly be in that much pain and refused to prescribe me painkillers.
I would honestly say, at this point, that my pain from my leg was easily comparable to childbirth. It really did hurt that badly. Think about the pain from childbirth, then relocate it to just above and behind your knee. Then think about how no one believes that you are in pain, especially that amount of pain, because it's not easily fixable.
I'm not diminishing childbirth, but I am not exaggerating about my knee either.

My mom was born with her kneecaps on upside down. She had screws in her knees, reconstructive surgery, and finally total knee replacements. She also gave birth without an epidural. I'm about 99% sure she would take the childbirth (all 57 hours of it) over the knee problems any day.

*shrugs* I guess it's apples and oranges anyway. It's hard to compare year(s) of chronic pain to hours of labor pain. Plus, the result of childbirth is so much more joyful than that of knee surgery. Most women would (hopefully) say they would go through labor all over again, in spite of the pain involved. Most people who've had knee surgery would probably say they'd go to any lengths to keep from having to go through it again.

I'm all for stem cell research. And pooh on Rush for his mean-spirited comments about MJF.

Oh yeah, I'd definitely go through anything to keep from knee surgery again, as long as that anything does not include more pain and limping. I'd rather healthy knees over anything.
Yeah, at least with childbirth you get a prize! Though my prize was pretty great too...walking without pain for the first time in a year and a half. I'd forgotten what it felt like.

Did anyone watch Michael J. Fox interviewed by George Stephanopoulos on This Week? Here is a link to the transcript for those who missed it. http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/story?id=2613377&page=1 There is also a video.

Self explanatory for once
Rush wasn't addicted because the drug wasn't illegal (WRONG!)
I don't like Rush

I don't listen to him either.

The implication that you can be addicted to legal drugs somehow implies that addictions to illegal drugs aren't as bad. (WRONG!) This make me angry even though it doesn't make sense.

You clearly advocate addiction to painkillers, try Meth it's WAAAAAAy better. I'm going to keep missing the point.
*ILLOGICAL COMMENT HERE*
You don't do meth because you have teeth.
Clearly you should try soda, it will rot your teeth too.
Coca Cola is godly, bless you my child.
Whatever tickles your pickle.

Hahaha I never get sick of these translations!

Haha, thats pretty classic.......I still can't believe he missed the point of my posts by as much as he did. I'm pretty sure Tom "Wyatt" Earp has lost all sense of logical reality.

That would be the alcohol pickling brain cells...never mind losing the point of your posts, I'm still trying to figure out his...