Soon the kidneys became impaired. Nope. It was the patient's fault for taking such bad care of his diabetes.
Wait. Some of the side effects include kidney failure in some cases as young as age 4. Nope. The patient is at fault.
Then the eyes went totally dark and I became very blind. Nope. That was the patient's fault too. How about the side effects listed as narrow angle glaucoma. Nope. It is the patient's fault.
Off to the eye specialist.
It was all the patients fault again. He can go back and do his normal job with no problem.
Wait. The vision under florescent and metal halide lights fogs to a point that I become literally blind.
Nope. Too bad. Sink or swim. The patient can do his previous work with limitations.
What limitations?
We don't give a hoot. Go back to your general practicioner and whine on his shoulder.
When I was at the football game tonight, I was like totally blind. Then when I attended the Blind Commission, regarding my vision issues the florescent lights there caused me to be almost completely blind in some rooms. Then 45 minutes later after leaving the blind commission my sight returned, but remained quite blurry. One thing that helps me, is to have a dark section in my writing.
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Now viewing the dark letters above helps my vision as does closeing my eyes while I am typing this letter.
Of course, people want evidence to support claims that prescription drugs mught be dangerous or at least cause blindness.
"Joseph Pampena is living proof that where there's a will, there's a way.
The 50-year-old entrepreneur runs several businesses out of his home office in North York, providing for his family - including a severely disabled daughter.
That requires a lot of resources, a lot of time at the office and a lot of money. All of which Pampena manages to give. It's an incredible feat considering the Toronto businessman has been blind for the last 26 years.
He was just 24 when a reaction to a penicillin shot for his pneumonia stole his sight forever. But while darkness descended on his vision, the light didn't go out in his life and this determined man decided nothing would keep him from becoming a success." according to an article that appeared in City News.
A little over five months ago, I became totally blind. I woke up one morning, and my vision was starting to go dark. By noon, I knew I was in big trouble. I had been given an injection of an antibiotic to stop a lung infection. At first, my legs began to swell as the kidneys began to fail, amd chest an arm pains came too. As a type 1 diabetic, I began monitoring my bllod sugar. It was going really high, like as high as 800. I was so frustrated, I pounded my fist on the floor. Then, I decided to do what I knew was necessary. I started checking my blood sugar every hour. My lovely wife Judy, set the alarm on her cell phone for every hour, and, after I went blind, I had her inject some insulin every hour for 48 hours until the blood sugar normalized. Finally, after all these months, my eyes have stabilized too. Still, the artificial lights fog the vision, and the best lights are incandescent.
With the eye specialist saying I can do my job with limitations, I now need to hear from him abut what those limitations might entail. I am certainly seeing better tonight, and I am able to look at the computer screen some, I primarily am able to type because I was trained as a typist as a teenager. The skill to type documents without vision has come in extremely handy during this illness.
I want to conclude with the statement that prescription drugs are so dangerous, that each consumer needs to investigate the side effects before allowing a doctor to give an injection or to allow a doctor to give you a pill, under the guise medical treatment. Doctors thingk the profit margin first, unless they work for a clinic. Then the clinic worries about the profit margin. Doctors often have no motivation to make you well again at the lowest costs.
Rather, the more the doctor or the office manager can get you back into the office, the greater the potential for profits.
Again prescription drugs represent a risk to your health. Don't trust your doctor for advice on the dangerous of prescription drugs. Read the warning lables and then do a little research to decie the best course of action.
Neil Kirk
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