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In a message dated 11/14/02 10:03:44 PM, stephanie.elms@...
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<< Wow. I never realized that I only dated band geeks! Interesting.... >>

My sister, my only sister, only dates (or at least only really lives with and
enjoys) crazy Viet Nam vets. Within the last year she left her husband, who
was a just-post-war twitchy SEAL sneaking around where we shouldn't have
been, for an officially disabled full-on vet. Before my brother in law, she
was with another clearly unrecovered vet. My dad was VERY concerned when my
15 year old sister was living with a guy who kept guns by the doors and was
never quite still. That guy has still been friends of my sister and her
first/main husband through all those years and is the one who stirred up the
jealously of crazed-vet #3 which led to the divorce. (HE wanted to be #2 in
her attentions; seriously.)

My sister re-married last month.

She's very familiar with the VA hospital system and regs and schedules...

None of these guys are musicians. My sister is, but for some reason she
picked another pattern.

WEIRD, huh??

Sandra

Betsy

**My sister, my only sister, only dates (or at least only really lives
with and enjoys) crazy Viet Nam vets.**

Ellen Goodman just wrote a thought-provoking column titled "Ah, forget
it -- with the medication of the future."

It starts out with these interesting questions:

"Imagine that you have arrived at the emergency room after a horrific
car crash. The doctor in charge offers you two pills. One will relieve
the inflammation of whiplash. The other will reduce the psychological
trauma, muting the nightmarish flashbacks to a manageable memory?

Would you take one? Would you take both? Is there any difference?"

and

"... what about a soldier just back from battle? Should he be treated
with medicine that helps dim the effect of the horrors that he has experienced?"


These are interesting questions.

Betsy

kayb85

Homeopaths would say that you can't treat a physical symptom without
treating the psychological symptom too. They're both related.
Sheila

> Ellen Goodman just wrote a thought-provoking column titled "Ah,
forget
> it -- with the medication of the future."
>
> It starts out with these interesting questions:
>
> "Imagine that you have arrived at the emergency room after a
horrific
> car crash. The doctor in charge offers you two pills. One will
relieve
> the inflammation of whiplash. The other will reduce the
psychological
> trauma, muting the nightmarish flashbacks to a manageable memory?
>
> Would you take one? Would you take both? Is there any difference?"
>
> and
>
> "... what about a soldier just back from battle? Should he be
treated
> with medicine that helps dim the effect of the horrors that he has
experienced?"
>
>
> These are interesting questions.
>
> Betsy