<<  She is to drink a
 gallon of water a day and is also to drink 3 beers a day!  She also suggested
 more caffeine.  What's with the beer advice?  Is this really a treatment? >>

Huh?  This is interesting!  Alcohol is a diuretic -- so is caffeine for that
matter, but I think the idea is to increase the fluids, not decrease it.  The
caffeine is for the effect on the brain (lots of pain medications also contain
caffeine for the potentiating effect) but beer?  That's a new one on me.
Maybe she's supposed to drink the beer to forget the pain?

Jan Barger -- to whom drinking beer would be tantamount to taking nasty
medicine.