Yep, I was going to recommend amalgam removal for Rush ... using
proper protcol of course .... *IF* your health is b-a-a-a-a-d, you
know ........
Mark Tarka - butt out!
***
Limbaugh verbatim
Fri Oct 10 2003 17:22:39 ET
I need to tell you today that part of what you have heard and read in
the past week is correct. I am addicted to prescription pain
medication. I first started taking prescription pain killers five, six
years ago when my doctor prescribed them to treat post-surgical pain
following spinal surgery. Unfortunately, the surgery was unsuccessful
and I continued to have severe pain in my lower back and also in my
neck now due to two herniated discs -- pain which I'm still
experiencing because of that. Rather than opt for additional surgery
for these conditions, I chose to treat the pain with prescribed
medication, and this medication turned out to be highly addictive.
Over the past several years I've tried to break my dependence on pain
pills and in fact I've twice checked myself into medical facilities in
an attempt to do so. But I recently agreed with my doctor about the
next steps. So. Immediately following this broadcast, I will check
myself into a treatment center for the next 30 days to once and for
all break the hold that this highly-addictive medication has on me.
The show will continue during this time, of course. There will be an
array of guest hosts that you've come to know and respect sitting
here. I'm not making any excuses and I don't intend to..........[[re
other famous people who have undergone treatment]] I want you to know
that I'm no role model and I refuse to let anybody think that I'm
doing something heroic here or doing something great here when there
are people that you have never heard of...[who] just face it. They are
the role models if anybody in this is a role model. I'm not a victim
and I'm not going to portray myself as a victim...I take full
responsibility for this problem. At the present time, the authorities
are conducting an investigation. I have been asked to limit my public
comments until this investigation is complete. So I'm only going to
say that the stories you've read -- the stories you've heard --
contain inaccuracies and distortions, and I'm going to clear those up
when I am finally free to speak about them...........I deeply
appreciate the overwhelming support that you have extended to me. It
literally has sustained me, but it doesn't fool me. It is what it is.
I take it for what it is, and I appreciate it more than I will ever be
able to express to you. But now I want to ask for your prayers,
because when this is all over with I look forward -- actually it's
never going to be all over with, that's something I know. But,
nevertheless, I look forward to resuming our excursions into broadcast
excellence together, again, as soon as possible.
END
--
Joel M. Eichen, .
Philadelphia PA
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