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
Neil
When you read my blog, you might notice a few typos or even maybe even lots of typos, depending on how bad or good my vision is at that moment.
ReplyDelete"The prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) has increased over the past two decades," according to the 2009 American Society of Nephrology article The Costs and Benefits of Automatic Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate Reporting. in this article authored by
ReplyDeleteJulia R. den Hartog.
This fact brought attention based on the fact that so many prescription drugs are pushed and patients are not always aware of the complications that could potentially lead to kidney failure.
This not kid ourselves. The pill pushers want to reap huge profits at your expense. They have no motivation to save you money while improving your health. It all comes down to what were our sales and net profit today. If you think differently, then you live in the dream world. Health care is not about health but profits. It is that simple. The more sick people the better.
I woke up this morning with greatly improved vision. The question now remains if my vision stays under florescent or metal halide lights. We had obtained some information from the Printing House for the Blind. I have included exerpts from the article below:
ReplyDelete"The Effects of Fluorescent Light on the Ocular Health of Persons with Pre-Existing Eye Pathologies
By Elaine Kitchel
American Printing House for the Blind
Fluorescent light is the most common source of lighting today for industry and commerce. The cool white fluorescent tube is the light source of choice for most designers of interior spaces. Fluorescent light is cheap, efficient and long-lasting and the tubes are available in a wide array of styles and choices, from the common cool white fluorescent tube (4100K and 5000K) to specialty tubes such as plant growth tubes and actinic tubes for aquarium lighting.
Most schools are lit with cool white fluorescent tubes as well, owing to the qualities of economy and long life they offer. However, recent studies in cellular activity of the human retina indicate cool white tubes or daylight tubes should probably not be considered as a good lighting source for persons with eye disease or eye injury.
When the eye is healthy and carrying on the process of photoreception, each photoreceptor in the retina does one unit of work for each peak in a wavelength of light which strikes it. Each unit of work done by a single photoreceptor, generates one unit of cellular waste product which must be carried away by the eye’s natural system of waste disposal.
In the diseased or injured eye, the natural system of waste disposal is often compromised. Thus, while the retinal cells are working hard to process light information, they often produce more waste product than the eye’s disposal system can handle. Waste products build up in the eye and are perceived by the brain as “glare.”
Glare is often characterized as “fog, whiteness, blackness, or an irritating feeling.” Whatever it is, it’s unpleasant to the person who experiences it. For the person suffering from diseased or injured eyes, it is more than unpleasant, it can be extremely painful and it can last a very long time after the source of light is removed.
How does cool white light, or light with an output in the predominantly blue portion of the spectrum exacerbate glare? It is simple mathematics. For every peak in a lightwave which strikes a photoreceptor, the cell does one unit of work. UV and light in the blue part of the spectrum have peaks which are very close together, working the eye at a much higher rate (2 trillion times faster) than that of the warm white (2700K) fluorescent tube. Conversely, light in the red part of the spectrum, tends to allow the retinal cells to operate at a slower rate, often giving them a better chance to keep pace with the disposal of the by-products of photoreception. This then, results in less glare....
Because of the slow processing of visual information in the diseased or injured eye, many persons with limited vision are able to perceive the flicker in fluorescent lights which is imperceptible to persons with healthy eyes.....
A new product, the Vivid Vision Lamp, is now available from the American Printing House for the Blind. Even though it is fluorescent, it employs a new technology which reduces the flicker rate to almost nothing. Additionally, it uses a combination of fluorescent and other lamp technologies to produce light that is in the 2700K range. It is perfect for most persons with compromised vision, and those persons with typical vision for whom typical fluorescent lighting is not advisable, because it emits NO blue or UV light...
If you run into vision issues, but are not blind enough, you are screwed, If it is bad enough that you can not read a computer screen under artificial lights such as metal halide or florescent but in the doctor's office he determines you can see 20-30 then you are really screwed. You go to work under those lights and in 15 minutes you can not hardly see a thing, you are screwed again. I went to a fast food place to get a soda and I could hardly see well enough to get out the door. Then even outside, I see very blurry but that is OK because you can see 20-30 so the fact you see blurry is just tough beans.Then of course the longer I look at the computer screen the worse the vision gets. But that is OK if you are literally blind in 15-20 minutes, we took the measurement right away so we could screw you. You don't think we are going to assist you with tax money and we don't care if you have vision issues for the last six months. Sure you were totally blind in June but what is your problem, you can see very blurry now. It was your stupid fault anyway for trusting a doctor to give you an anti biotic for a lung infection. We know that you will never make 30 minutes on the computer, but that is tough beans too. Why don't you go play tough guy wrestling with a semi truck. OK. So your employer told you not to come back until the eyes improve, we could care less. We don't care if your kids starve. This is the United States where se don't care about anyone but me, me, me, me, and more of me. We don't care about your, or you, or you and you. So just drop dead if you can not work and quit being a burden on society. Nobody wants a sort of blind person. No body wants an idiot who is not smart enough to go completely blind or smart enough to keep from going sort of blind. YOu moron, you can just die in the grassy fields somewhere and then we can dispose of your worthless body. We don't watm sprt pf [eple. We don't want sort of dead people, we don't want people who can sort of see, and you can just suffer for being so stupid you trusted your doctor when you had a lung infection. The doctors made lots of money off the deal, so life is tough.
ReplyDeleteYou can touch type, so ramble on until you die of starvation.
Erll it is about time. With my horriby blurred vision and the florescent and metal halide lights making me almost blind, that is no big deal. As long as the eye specialist says I can still do my normal job of customer service, reading words, sentences and numbers who cares if he can read them with errors. His employer can fire him and then the state does not have to use tax money, the doctor drains the insurance company, and I get fired. Everyone wins except me. So I should just get an extra set of clothes and head down the road. Call my relatives to ensure the chldren are taken care of, I quit taking my insulin and in 2-3 days after I am dead every one should be really happy. I will make 1-2 more entries before I sign off for good. I am not sure where I will head. Maybe California, Texas or Arizona. It does not matter. I am not taking food or money anyway. After taking that drug in April, the kidneys and the eyes were ruined. So who cares anyway. I am not worth anything anyway. Society likes to get rid of people like me because we are just to much of a burden, too much trouble and most of all are too expensive. Maybe the doctor will want to just inject a drug this time that will just kill me on the spot instead of merely passing out. Then he can rant how I was just too careless, that is why his injected drug killed me within seconds. Actually, I think I will head for MacDoel, California if I last that long. I will either die of too little insulin or die of kidney failure. It does not matter dead id dead and every will be a lot happier. My employer won't have to fire me, social organizations ran by the state won't have to fork out any money, and less oxygen will be consumed from this earth once I am deceased. Sure I see better today, but how long will that last. On the second thought, I ought to go to work and make them fire me first. Then I can head west without insulin. It should not take long without insulin. I will give it 36 more hours. If my vision does not return, I am out of here.
ReplyDeleteOK Your final answer. I do not need to see all that well to type. I have very blurred vision and it has been a serious vision issue for over five months. If you still don't get it then you are likely a doctor. Only a doctor could be that stupid.
ReplyDeleteIQ scores by profession.
ReplyDeleteDoctor 12
Mechanic 250
Welder 220
CEO 180
Nurse 200 (The Nurse does the work.)
According to right wing Christian fundamentalism theories, it is all my fault for my vision problems. I must have done something really sinful. Maybe according to fundamentalism, I am really evil and God is punishing me. And of course the rich then are the righteous, proven by their riches. That brings me to my famous song, Amazing Grace that saved the Rich people like me. Oh Lord have mercy on the poor for we know they are poor because of their sins.
ReplyDeleteAccording to that theory, it is all my fault I have vision problems.
I am digusted with the medical community. Here I am with eyes that appear really screwed up and can not even work under florescent and metal halide lights. With all the computer knowledge and medical knowledge and they can not even figure out that looking at a computer and trying to work under metal halide lights is next to impossible. It does appear after nearly six months, that the eyes are starting to heal but I am screwed. You can not tell me with all the computer technology that eye specialist can not tell that there has been something wrong with my eyes in the last six months. What is the matter it takes too much effort for the profit they expect to make from seeing me???????
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