Choices

Everyone has choices,some are hard choices some are easy choices,
i want to tell about a choice a freind of mine made.
For about 17 years this freind we will call him HB lived with severe pain everyday.Pain so great that he would have to get in the closet and cover his head because everything made it worse.
He has a compressed fracture in his back,once his back started hurting it would go up his neck then to his head.He could barely turn his head,drs gave him vioxx,bextra,before they got pulled off the market,nothing worked, he spent money on a chiropractor,it did not work, he finally went to a dr that explained to him that arthritis has done set in and its going to get worse.The dr gave him percoet 10,he thought it would not work but after about an hour he could move,his pain was all but gone,needless to say he was very happy.He finally could get down on the floor and play with his kids,just have a normal life.
All of that came to a halt once he realised he had a good chance to get hooked on the drugs,he only took the 4 day that was directed,very seldom would he take more,he read up on it,come to find out that after a while even if you stop taking the pills they can cause you to have a sudden heartattack.
So what to do? live life free of pain or in pain?
Hope he dont have a heart attack due to the drugs,he was in a pickle.Well he is still taking the drugs but he is free of pain,
what would you do?