Monday, June 13, 2011

Human nature

Mrs. Marlboro: "What can I do to prevent having another stroke?"

Dr. Grumpy: "Quit smoking. You also need to start taking your medications as prescribed."

Mrs. Marlboro: "That's a lot of work. Can't I just take a vitamin or something?"

19 comments:

  1. *Facepalm* Some people deserve their fate. If you have an opportunity to make a positive change and you blow it off, no sympathy here.

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  2. They will get me to give up my cigarette when they pry my cold dead hands from around them--Yup, that is probably exactly what will happen.

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  3. the American way: fix it with a pill. You eat like a pig..take a pill. You smoke like a chimney, use an inhaler. You can't effectively parent your kids, give them pills.

    sigh.

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  4. @Chick, you forgot "and then demand that someone else pay for those pills."

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  5. "Or smoke some of those new vitamin-enriched cigarettes?"

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  6. Rome was not built in a day, bad habits cant usually be stopped in a day.

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  7. It's going to be hard to swallow those vitamins with all that dysphagia from your next massive stroke.

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  8. "Sure that'll work. Since you are so compliant with taking your other meds I am positive you will have no trouble with ths one either.

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  9. Right, Nite Nurse? If he can't manage to take one set of pills the doctor gave him, why does he think he'll take a different set of pills? "Vitamin" does not mean, "The pill puts itself into your mouth for you!"

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  10. Yes, there is a "one shot", "one time" panacea for what ails you. It is in the form of a suppository and contains a mixture of lead and copper which you insert into either ear canal. The handy applicator is manufactured in this country by Smith and Wesson.
    Have a nice day.

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  11. My mother died at age 58 from a stroke, mainly due to smoking. My father died with lung cancer. My sister is a 51 year old type 1 diabetic home health care nurse who won't stop smoking. Recently I had to give her money for bills, but of course, she had money to buy cigarettes. I despise everything about them.

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  12. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't rehab after a debilitating stroke be "a lot of work" too?
    --Queen Anne's Lace

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  13. "That's a lot of work. Can't I just take a vitamin or something?"

    haha. No wonder you called her Mrs. Marlboro. There are indeed so many stubborn people in the planet.

    Whew!
    Cathy@medical products

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  14. She could always try dying of something else first.

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  15. Anon: "Dying of something else first"
    Yeah! Right On! Preferably before the next appointment is due!
    Lead poisoning perhaps?

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  16. Just tell him his prescribed meds are special herbal vitamins.

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So wadda you think?