Well if that isn't a mouth full of words. Methylprednisolone is a fancy word for Medrol. It is taken for allergic disorders; blood diseases; breathing problems; certain cancers; eye diseases; intestinal disorders; collagen and skin diseases. Methylprednisolone is a corticosteroid hormone (glucocorticoid). I hurt my back and this is what I got to cure it!
Nervous breakdown suicide is just the side effect I am having that may be the mental/mood changes (e.g., mood swings, depression, agitation and some sleep problems with a touch of dizziness).
So I called my doctor and reported the side effect symptoms.
After 4 or 5 hours the nurse calls back and says, "We do not know what the side effects are." Call your pharmacist "tomorrow" if the symptoms continue!
HUMMMM!
This is where giving medication and taking medication has evolved to. The patient must read the enclosed medication literature, have some side effects and then educate the doctor on the medication he perscribed. It makes sense because the poor doctor perscribes so much medicine how can he keep up with all the uses, side effects and the precautions these medicines may cause. I mean if you look at the Physicians Desk Reference Book (PDR) you will see hundreds possibly thousands of medications listed. What is a poor doctor to do?
So what if a patient has a nervous breakdown and then commits suicide! It cannot be the doctors fault because it is not his responsibility to know anything about the medicine he perscribes.
It then falls to the Pharmacist! He is responsible because he gives out the medicine the doctor writes down on a small square bit of paper.
The patient. Well either he survives the cure or is buried in the perscribed undertaker box.
Maybe going back to using leeches and blood letting isn't such a bad idea after all!!!
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
Thursday, July 14, 2005
Is anybody out there?
Why do people write notes or letters before they commit suicide? I mean if no one listened to them before what makes them think someone will read or care about the words they left behind? It is obvious that the suicidal person will never see the reaction to these self imposed death sentences. Nor will they know if anybody cared to correct their spelling or comment on their commas. Will someone take time to paraphrase their paragraphs? Will one single person hyphen their death at all? I think a few people might make comical references linking them to their colons and semi-colons. Will all their memories and ideas be buried in coffened parenthisis? Whatever! The final result isn't in a long or short sentence, only that their life has ended period.
Monday, February 07, 2005
The shadow of your cat.
Why do cat's like to chase their shadows?
Just asking in case you got boored, ended up reading my blog and have nothing better to do than answer questions about pu.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
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rring cats.
Just asking in case you got boored, ended up reading my blog and have nothing better to do than answer questions about pu.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
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rring cats.
Monday, January 24, 2005
Inspire-ation
What Motovates You?
Lately it seem my motovation is wrapped around my inspiration that lacks imagination. I am having one of those days and cannot seem to get it together. I not sure what it is that I have to get together. What is it? When someone says to you, "Get it together!" What it are they talking about? I am not an IT! Nor do I want to be an it. Humm. I wonder if it is something I wear or carry around in my pocket? Next time someone tells me to "get it together," I will just have to ask them what the hell is it that they want me to get together.
That's the way IT is!
Chumly
Saturday, January 22, 2005
Behind the Eyelids
What is behind your eyelids? The first thing may be blackness. Then you may perceive small little dots. The dots are like the ones that create the pictures on your television. There may be flashes of light as you turn your head toward a light source with your eyes closed. You might possibly see some after images, that is images of the last thing you saw before you closed your eyes. If you keep your eyelids closed for too long then eventually you will fall asleep.
Good night
Chumly
Good night
Chumly
Sunday, January 16, 2005
Saturday, January 08, 2005
MEDIC
I love the VAH's or Veterans Administration Hospitals! Especially because I am out of work and have no other insurance. I find the care is better than some HMO's I have had in the past but with these differences:
Instead of calling 911 for an emergency. The Veteran must put on his old uniform and lay in his yard and scream MEDIC at the top of his lungs until help arrives.
When the helicopter comes, the Veteran must be sure to strap himself/herself securely in the basket. If it is a long trip the crew will pull up the basket into the helicopter. If it is short trip the basket will not be brought up fully into the "Chopper" and it is advised for short trips to strap oneself face down in the basket in case of air sickness. Also wear warm clothing.
For regular appointments get there early so you can wait. Do not be discouraged there are televisions to watch, magazines, a mess hall, which closes at 3 PM, and retired people who are hard of hearing, partcially blind and have arthritis to wait on all Veterans. These employees are usually retired from part time work at McDonalds Resturants.
While waiting one can talk to the other Veterans. Learn about the Korean War, World War II, WWI, Civil and Spanish American War. As Veterans become older soon there will be Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, and Desert Storm Veterans which will add to one seeking knowledge of more current wars.
Veterans in wheel chairs are the best people for information about these wars. It is also interesting to watch Veterans argue and disagree about their outfits during these wars. Common arguments involve which Veteran was in the most dangerous place during a war. Sometimes wheel chair Veterans play chicken in their wheel chairs to settle arguments. This is especially interesting because usually their legs have no feeling and the crashes they create are better than NASCAR.
It is also not uncommon to see people on crutches arguing with the wheel chair Vets and sometimes pulling the air tubes out of each other machines.
A young woman is usally not a nurse but a relative with a old rich Vet.
If a Vet argues with a Receptionist, Secretary, Doctor or Nurse, Security intervines and the Vet must wait an extra hour for his medication in the Pharmacy. If the Vet causes a serious situation he must return his medication and come back the next day to retrive it from the Pharmacy.
No VA Doctor is an American Citizen. Sometimes the doctor is a Veteran of the same War the Veteran was in but on the opposite side or what would then be called the enemy. So it is with the upmost importance that the Vet be friendly to all senior medical personnel.
The Vet must be able to understand, Indian, Eastern, Asian and some European languages.
After getting a blood test the Veteran must be sure to get his free breakfast meal ticket before a politician gets wind of it and tries to take it away.
The Vet does not have to worry about parking in handicapped spaces because all the spaces are handicapped spaces.
Hospital beds in a VA hospital are plentiful because no one is allowed to use them.
Some transportation, non-emergency, is provided to the Vets that have no other means to get to the VA hospital. Sometimes frequent stops are made by the Vet as he/she watches the Van pull away without them as they try to catch it.
Never assume that the Vet sitting next to you is sleeping.
The 50-50 tickets sold in the VA Hospital to raise money for Vets does pay off.
Till some other time
see ya.
Chumly
Instead of calling 911 for an emergency. The Veteran must put on his old uniform and lay in his yard and scream MEDIC at the top of his lungs until help arrives.
When the helicopter comes, the Veteran must be sure to strap himself/herself securely in the basket. If it is a long trip the crew will pull up the basket into the helicopter. If it is short trip the basket will not be brought up fully into the "Chopper" and it is advised for short trips to strap oneself face down in the basket in case of air sickness. Also wear warm clothing.
For regular appointments get there early so you can wait. Do not be discouraged there are televisions to watch, magazines, a mess hall, which closes at 3 PM, and retired people who are hard of hearing, partcially blind and have arthritis to wait on all Veterans. These employees are usually retired from part time work at McDonalds Resturants.
While waiting one can talk to the other Veterans. Learn about the Korean War, World War II, WWI, Civil and Spanish American War. As Veterans become older soon there will be Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, and Desert Storm Veterans which will add to one seeking knowledge of more current wars.
Veterans in wheel chairs are the best people for information about these wars. It is also interesting to watch Veterans argue and disagree about their outfits during these wars. Common arguments involve which Veteran was in the most dangerous place during a war. Sometimes wheel chair Veterans play chicken in their wheel chairs to settle arguments. This is especially interesting because usually their legs have no feeling and the crashes they create are better than NASCAR.
It is also not uncommon to see people on crutches arguing with the wheel chair Vets and sometimes pulling the air tubes out of each other machines.
A young woman is usally not a nurse but a relative with a old rich Vet.
If a Vet argues with a Receptionist, Secretary, Doctor or Nurse, Security intervines and the Vet must wait an extra hour for his medication in the Pharmacy. If the Vet causes a serious situation he must return his medication and come back the next day to retrive it from the Pharmacy.
No VA Doctor is an American Citizen. Sometimes the doctor is a Veteran of the same War the Veteran was in but on the opposite side or what would then be called the enemy. So it is with the upmost importance that the Vet be friendly to all senior medical personnel.
The Vet must be able to understand, Indian, Eastern, Asian and some European languages.
After getting a blood test the Veteran must be sure to get his free breakfast meal ticket before a politician gets wind of it and tries to take it away.
The Vet does not have to worry about parking in handicapped spaces because all the spaces are handicapped spaces.
Hospital beds in a VA hospital are plentiful because no one is allowed to use them.
Some transportation, non-emergency, is provided to the Vets that have no other means to get to the VA hospital. Sometimes frequent stops are made by the Vet as he/she watches the Van pull away without them as they try to catch it.
Never assume that the Vet sitting next to you is sleeping.
The 50-50 tickets sold in the VA Hospital to raise money for Vets does pay off.
Till some other time
see ya.
Chumly
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