Man loses case, wins sympathy (FL Pain Meds Case-25 Yrs Upheld)

[RamboLiberal]

And Limpballs walked away from basically doing the same damn thing in spades.

http://www.sptimes.com/2006/12/07/Pasco/Man_loses_case__wins_.shtml

He's been on 60 Minutes. A New York Times columnist has championed his cause. Even those who prosecuted and convicted Richard Paey sympathize with the wheelchair-bound man serving 25 years for drug trafficking - for obtaining the drugs he needs for his debilitating pain.

Count among those sympathizers the 2nd District Court of Appeal.

The problem, a majority of the court ruled Wednesday, is that they can't help Paey.

They upheld his conviction and sentence by a 2-1 vote, but passed on this advice: Get the governor to commute the sentence.

"Mr. Paey's argument about his sentences does not fall on deaf ears," Judge Douglas Wallace wrote, "but it falls on the wrong ears."

[nashville_brook]

1. pain has been criminalized

i have chronic pain from an infection i had in my spine a few years ago. it's taken 4 years to find a doctor who would treat the pain AND the patient.

after the months-long hospitalization the pain didn't go away. i was told over and over again, by doctors and specialists alike, that "i don't DO pain."

a doctor who doesn't "do" pain. isn't that like a plumber who doesn't do "leaks?"

for FOUR YEARS every doctor's office i walked into treated me like a drug seeker, STARTING with the ER visit that intiatiated the whole mess. i had been re-habbing a house in FL and woke with off-the-scale back pain. it was so "hot" that i wondered if it weren't a kidney problem. i went to the same ER twice (nothing the first time). on the second visit the doc says, "the only thing i can do fer ya is give you this here epidural." then he proceeded to wave a GIGANTIC epidural needle in front of me saying, "are you SUUUUURE? are you SUUUUUURE you want me to do this. it's gonna HUUUUUURT reeeeeeeal baaaaaad."

i shit you not.

i told him i didn't care if he hobbled a foot -- if it made the pain go away in my back i'd be game.

a day later i was running a 104 degree temp and the hospital literally tried to boot me out on my duff. a sympathetic nurse risked losing her job by giving my a shot of morphine to make it ILLEGAL for me to leave for 6 hours until my then-husband could fly down from nashville.

and that's just the beginning of the story...

[Freedom_from_Chains]

2. I know, I am running into the same types of problems with

being treated for back pain. Nothing to the degree you are but it is really starting to piss me off that the government has gotten doctors so terrorized to give any kind of pain medication that real people are having to suffer. And asshats like Rush Limbo goes scott free and acts like he has been abused someway.

[nashville_brook]

3. HELLthcare is an aristocracy -- the "haves" can abuse it all they want

and get away with it.

the rest of us can't even get seen.

btw -- i hope you find the help you need. back pain is never the end of the story -- fatigue comes with it.

i finally found a GP who "gets it" and isn't cowed by the system. she's young and fearless. i did a "pain clinic" for a while, but i don't recommend it -- you are treated like an addict by default there. when i did the pain clinic thing, all they wanted to do was provide a script for oxy and immediate release morphine... and they requred random piss tests (which is a rattling experience) where you could get in trouble for NOT taking the prescribed amount of meds (this was a problem for me b/c i try to only take what i need, when i need it) -- so you were made dependent and expected to stay there. turns out i'm getting better relief from a more conservative approach and no piss tests. god i hate piss tests. i'm a patient, not a criminal.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

4. I am already doing the pain clinic thing but that seems to be

working out ok for now. However, the doctor I have been seeing is going to be taking a new job so I am going to be back to square one. However, I have many years of experience as to how to work the system.

I was more talking about people such as the man in the OP's story. Compared to what he is looking at I don't have any problems. The irony of the situation though is that if he has someone who can put money on his books, or he has a salable skill he can use inside, he will be able to get the drugs he needs in prison.

That is just how absurd we have become in this country.

[kutastha]

8. fucking doctors

what are they good for?

[Hekate]

10. It's not the docs. It's the godforsaken War on Drugs, by which they can lose their MD license

On this one you've got to blame the federal government and jerks like John Ashcroft.

What a nightmare. What an inhumane nightmare.

Hekate

[KAZ]

5. Hmm. And what was Rush Limpdick's sentence? n/t

n/t

[Bozita]

9. Guy with handgun sold grass - 55 year sentence - Supreme Court agrees

Just one of Monday's SCOTUS decisions.

[KamaAina]

6. Get the governor to commute the sentence?

That would be Jeb!, right? Noelle's dad Jeb?

Works for me. :evilgrin:

P.S. Note to St. Pete Times: Paey is not a "wheelchair-bound man" but a "man who uses a wheelchair".

[badgerpup]

7. Funny you should mention that...

"P.S. Note to St. Pete Times: Paey is not a "wheelchair-bound man" but a "man who uses a wheelchair".

Ex-Beloved Sig Other uses a wheelchair and showed up in his public speaking class one day with an picture of someone in a wheelchair, in chains.
"Wheelchair Bound!"
He thought it was pretty funny and was expecting a laugh, but the room went dead silent...
and oh, the embarrased and uncomfortable faces!
:evilgrin: