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My brother had back surgery a while back, with good results. He tells me that he knows other people who've had much worse results, and when I asked him what the difference was in their treatment he said there were two things:
And, despite the fact that my brother had a good outcome, every once in a while his back will begin acting up (this is to be expected), but because of all the P.T. he got he has the exercises he needs to be able to take care of his back when it needs extra care.
- As the son of a physical therapist, my brother knew enough to insist that he get physical therapy along with the surgery, and to pay attention to what the physical therapist told him. Those who had worse outcomes didn't.
- Because of this need for P.T., my brother made sure his surgery done at an in-patient clinic that does everything, provides consultations with the therapist before surgery, does the surgery, and then provides long term physical therapy after the surgery is done. The people he knew who had poorer outcomes went to clinics that did surgery only. After that the patients were on their own.
Possible, but don't jump to conclusions. And if that is it, it's very responsible of her to stick to guinea pigs rather than getting a cat and trying to turn it into a vegetarian, the way some people do.I had a supervisor once who was a vegetarian who claimed that her dog and other dogs were not really meat eaters but vegetarians, that when they got hold of a whole animal they would immediately go for the stomach and its contents which was full of vegetarian matter! Now, apart from dogs not being cats I was really glad she did not have a cat, we all know that cats cannot digest vegetarian food and would starve to death given a vegetarian diet. What gets me is that this woman had a PhD and should have known better. Goes to show that some PhDs just stand for PhuddyDuddy. As far as that goes: homo sapiens still has eye teeth, which are just shortened fangs showing that we are omnivorous, meaning we were designed to be meat and vegetation eaters. Strictly vegetarian animals DO NOT have eye teeth or fangs, they only have grinding teeth.
Just make sure she doesn't have any food sensitivities you need to know about. I'm neither vegetarian nor vegan, but I'm sensitive to casein, which is a milk protein. This is vastly different from lactose intolerance, which is fairly easy to deal with; it means I can't have any milk product, including cheese, butter, yogurt, cream cheese, ad infinitum, and I can't eat anything made with any of these things. Needless to say, I don't eat out a lot.
Margret
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