Cindy McCain's wrist problem is just a lead-in for requiring the

peons to bow and curtsey for her and her husband.

The McCain's are here in Michigan today.

because martinis are too stinky.

from her body that she needs real strong pain meds. Do you suppose?

Pain exists, but the degree that you focus on it depends on your mental state.

I had a friend with severe chronic back pain. She had abandoned her children to run away with her lover. I always felt that she punished herself for what she believed at her core to be very wrongful behavior by holding her body in a way that twisted her back and caused her pain.

In contrast, I have been told by doctors that, based on x-rays, I should be in terrible pain. I'm not. I exercise. I move around a lot. I have no time or need for pain. I don't take pain killers.

Cindy McCain may be a classic drug-dependent personality.

Lots of people have repetitive motion syndrome due to work injuries. I respect that, but how many hours a day does Cindy shake hands. Did she have gotten it from playing tennis? How many hours was she playing?

Considering she is not sitting at a computer or a grocery check-out or on an assembly line eight hours a day and that she does have it, it is because she positions herself so as to get it. And also because she has not strengthened her arm, wrists, hand to avoid it. Doesn't she have decent health insurance that covers physical therapy?

Lots of pianists get this, but if you hold your arms so that they are very relaxed and so that your fingers fall from your wrists onto the keyboard, you can avoid the pain. I learned that technique from a European pianist who had suffered from the syndrome for years before learning this healthy technique.

Cindy may be a meds seeker, an addict. That is what this is really about.

which I also have. Other people might not be as lucky and feel pain at a higher degree than we do, and it is not necessarily anything to do with their need of drugs.

Doctors have always been amazed that I am not in pain when I should be. They also get frustrated with me at time because I do not fear pain the way most people do. In my present health state I am not allowed to take regular aspirin or Tylenol. I must take narcotic pain killers, so I do not take them unless the pain becomes unbearable. I recently had partial mastectomies of both breast and only took one pain killer on the following day for the pain in my throat from the rough insertion of the tubing. A few weeks later my daughter had minor surgery and could not understand why she needed pain pills when I did not.

I laughed and told her. "If I could take aspirin, do you think I wouldn't have. I just don't want to take those pills for the pain and then have to put up with the side effects." But really the pain was not unbearable. There WAS pain but it was bearable for me. My daughter then asked me what made me such a "bad ass". I take that as a compliment. :)

Pain amounting to a 10 for another person is a 4 or 5 by her scale. So maybe it is inherited. But, I think being able to relax and focusing on something other than your pain (which is natural to some of us) is the key. The downside is that those of us who are not sensitive to pain all that much don't notice symptoms and miss warnings from our own bodies.

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she's got tiny wrists too, which doesn't help.

Is this funny?

too, she should go to one of her many homes and wrist those tiny wrists. She probably got carpal tunnel from opening bottles of stolen meds.

just curious - if a person is in chronic pain and takes pain meds everyday to deal with such pain, are they drug addicts? Funny thing when you're in pain, the meds work on the pain, that's what they do. There are millions of people in this country, who deal with chronic pain on a daily basis, drug addicts all?

Cindy McCain had a knee replacement in 07, is she allowed to take pain meds after surgery in your opinion? If she does, is she automatically a drug addict again? If you had a knee replacement, would you suffer during rehabilitation or take meds to help you along?

I can't believe the callousness of some of these posts regarding a woman who has had, and obviously still is having medical problems that unfortunately are painful. Freepish behavior about health problems is just sad.

Why should we believe them about this?

and walking on crutches aren't exactly the photo ops the perfectly coiffed Cindy is clamoring for. She's 54, women have health problems, more so than men. Besides, is this really important and why is it our business?

but I am glad, he isn't our nominee.

She says "carpal tunnel" which is probably Cindy-Speak for "withdrawal."

many of whom are immigrants working for below the minimum wage in meat packing plants all over this area (Iowa). It is most definitely not funny when it comes people working their fingers to the bone with minimal, and more likely no health care at all. They just have to suck it up and deal with it, given the wonderful state of health care in this country.

A wealthy heiress, who's never done a truly honest day's work in her entire life, with "carpal tunnel", is something I find absolutely hilarious in concept!

From flexing her hand during manicures? Brushing beach sand off her bathing suit? The weight of heavy diamond rings? My husband says she just wants an excuse not to touch the "common" people.

I'm with you . . . This one is not. Reveling in someone else's pain - even when they're married to a political adversary - is something I'd expect from Rush Limbaugh and his acolytes. There are plenty of other things we could be focusing on.