ROFF and making friends

"slenon" wrote in message
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Wolfgang:
The next day, Cullen stood on his own for the first time since the
accident.
He was walking, albeit hesitantly and only very briefly within a few more
days. He goes back to the bone crunching voodoo herbalist witch doctor
every two to three months now, and can't wait to get in the door. Dogs
are
SO ****ing credulous.

IMO, your tale only proves that not all vets pratice at the same level of
aggression with respect to trauma.

Actually, it also demonstrates that one anecdote is pretty much as good as
another. Moreover, in my experience, first hand anecdotes are
overwhelmingly positive. Aside from what I've read here on ROFF, I have
NEVER heard anyone relate a personal chiropractic horror story. It is
neither odd nor surprising that it is typically when one gets the story at
third or fourth hand that some poor ******* has been broken in half and
somebody lost the parts......that's the way horror stories grow. Also
interesting is the fact that most such stories are attributed, in their
original form, to someone at the periphery of the medical professions. Not
doctors, mind you (someone would remember a doctor's name, and he or she
could theoretically be tracked down......and there ARE libel laws), but
someone's sister in law who happens to be a surgical nurse or blah, blah.

However, I'm glad that the dog recovered.

So am I. So is Becky. So is the voodoo witch doctor. So, presumably, is
Cullen.

As I said, to me chiropractic equates to new age voodoo stirred
with shamanism.

Hm.....sort of like carving off a piece of yourself to appease the spirits
and flaunting the stump.....that the sort of thing, you mean?

If it works for someone else, so be it.

So let it be written.

I will not address
a chiropractor as "Dr." nor trust any member of my family to such therapy.

One suspects that a good few of them wouldn't much give a **** if you
addressed them at all. Do you decide for your family whom they will
marry.....where they take their cars for repairs.....what they will have for
supper?

To paraphrase, it is amazing how many people who visit chiropractors are
cured the day their insurance benefits expire.

People without insurance can often get in to see a chiropractor.....and get
some relief.....for twenty or thirty bucks. Most doctors wouldn't **** on
them if they were on fire for that kind of money.

YMMV.

Yeah, that'll happen to thinking people.

Wolfgang