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Originally Posted by breakingnews
It kind of frightens me when people know too much about prescription drugs, or drugs in general. ..... But it's just downright scary to hear people rattle off drug composition and dosages. I guess if you're going to ingest it, you might as well get familiar with it, but it edges on a certain threshold that I'm not willing to cross.
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Yeah, you have a point there, but let me explain that learning about drugs was not my idea. I never enjoyed the feeling that I was not in control of my surroundings, so I was actually pretty straight all through college and many years of dating. I know some of the other gals here are in health care, but I got an education while spending the proverbial time wracked up in the trenches. The head of Pulmonary Medicine at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix did not have the brains to diagnose an embolism and I was finally wheeled into an emergency room with about 15 minutes left on my life clock when they got things flowing again and I could breathe. That was 15 year ago, and since they I've had to visit a lot of hospitals because if somebody is on a high dose of Coumadin, you even look at them and they start bleeding. Try having a piece of expandable plastic called a Rhyno shoved up your nose all the way to the cavity behind your eyes to stop a hemorrhage, think that don't hurt? Last summer I had a Right Heart Cath, I'm getting hardened so I watched the whole thing. I paid for it, might as well learn something while I am at it. To make a 15-year story short, I have to let doctors do all kinds of unpleasant things to me but I don't TRUST them anymore. It was a doctor who was "the best of the best" who put me here. So the minute anybody comes at me with a needle or some pills in their hand, they end up with their wrist grabbed and they don't get near me without a complete explanation of what it is and what it does and show me the entry on my paperwork. This is how I have prevented hospital staff and one doctor from giving me the wrong meds, unneeded meds, and once a DOUBLE injection of anticoagulants which would have killed me right there in that hospital bed. I've never taken any PAIN med for recreational purposes, but I was really popular for a while in a certain group of associates who found out that my medicine cabinet was filled with barely opened bottles of some pretty heavy stuff
