It isn't easy being a patient, is it? That hard part for me is that I am finding more and more that I have to double check everything for myself. If you have any questions that don't get answered or what the doctor tells you does not makes sense to you or you feel your issues weren't all addressed. I suggest you get a second opinion or verbally tell your doctor you are unsure about your appointment and what him/her to explain carefully and in layman's terms what he feels is wrong. It can save your life or just give you more comfort and understanding.
I've been uncomfortable with how quickly my doctor felt the cholesterol drugs were destroying my legs. He based it entirely on the fact that my severe pain seemed to subside a bit after I got off those pills. So, he ASSUMED they were the cause.
Since then, I've talked to a couple seasoned pharmacists who say they have never heard of someone having the muscular issues so very long after first taking them. Generally, if you are going to have this happen it will be right away, not 12 years later. He suggests I talk again the the doctor asap as I need to be back on at least the Pravachol due to my serious cholesterol/Tri-glyceride issues. The next step would be to find out if it is the Sciatic Nerve causing all this pain and if so, possibly a neuro-type medication could alleve a good deal of the pinching and severe pain.
So that is the latest. Pain is worse everyday and limping today no matter how hard I tried not to.
Again, is this good news or bad news? Will the doctor be offended I went over his head or will he be willing to get me back on those meds and move forward.
Friday, February 15, 2013
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Documentary Assault on Waco, My View/Critique
I wrote this last night, 02-11-2013 on my facebook page. It is something I feel deep in my heart. If you've read my profile you will recall I was a talk radio show host for a number of years. It was during the time of Randy Weaver, Waco and the Atlanta Bombing. But Waco was the story I was pulled into with an anonymous tip and the rest was listener history. It was a horror story because of the story, a horror story because of the lies and endless attempts to cover the truth up, a horror story because it never needed to happen. I happened upon this last night and was grateful I did. It was on the Military Channel and called "Assault on Waco".
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Watching the "Assault on Waco" on the Military Channel. This was my baby when on the radio. I covered it extensively. So far, the first hour has only 2 major falsehoods. Memories are flooding back; I interviewed Koresh's mom. After it is over I will post if I recommend it. No one should ever forget what happened in 1993 in Waco, Texas.. especially since the media lied and lied for the first few years after. Some agents finally came clean. Oh, commercial is over..
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On the day 51, the govt order ambulances and fire trucks to come out but ordered them to stay quite a distance away. During the insertion of the gas thru the doors, windows and roofs of the compound, no ambulances were allowed. When the fire broke out and turned quickly to an inferno, no fire trucks were allowed. The 21 children and moms were a bunker that the govt was aware of. Somehow, a tank was parked over their exit. There is just so much more. If any good came out? BBC filmed it all while ours did not. This impatient group just have up and decided to gas them out using a gas that was declared TOO DANGEROUS AND DEADLY to even use in WAR!! WACO haunts me. If you don't know the story, this was close to the truth with some major deletions, of course, so their atrosities over and over don't come out. ASSAULT ON WACO. I plan to see if it is available from the Military Channel for purchase. So many don't know that our govt planned and carried out mass murder on it's own citizens less than 20 years ago.
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A Mr. Schroeder was killed outside the compound early on, his body riddled with bullets and stuck upon the fence he was crawling over. After several days and in the site of the compound, a helicopter used a large grappling hook to dislodge him and take him away. The children were denied milk for days and sanitation was denied. The poor mothers used buckets to lower sewage from the windows in an attempt to keep clean and as sanitary as possible.
The Feds feared Koresh would committ suicide in the beginning, a fear that Koresh continually told them was not true and is all on record. Agent Jamar, the Death Man with no patience, advised Janet Reno he felt that Koresh would do this and take everyone with him.. so she foolishly authorized the assault on Day 51 with the use of tear gas. As prepared as the Davidians were, their small number of gas masks were no match for the CF4 Gas, the most deadly & tortuous. Long before they were burned alive, they suffered great pain. There was NO reason to not wait a few more days. Conditions were being met... There is so much more but this, I know, is much for you who are new to this. I interviewed Koresh's mother just before the attack. No one, believed they would storm the families.
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The Montana Militia forced a stand off a couple of months later, but this time they learned and waited them out and no one died.
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Watching the "Assault on Waco" on the Military Channel. This was my baby when on the radio. I covered it extensively. So far, the first hour has only 2 major falsehoods. Memories are flooding back; I interviewed Koresh's mom. After it is over I will post if I recommend it. No one should ever forget what happened in 1993 in Waco, Texas.. especially since the media lied and lied for the first few years after. Some agents finally came clean. Oh, commercial is over..
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On the day 51, the govt order ambulances and fire trucks to come out but ordered them to stay quite a distance away. During the insertion of the gas thru the doors, windows and roofs of the compound, no ambulances were allowed. When the fire broke out and turned quickly to an inferno, no fire trucks were allowed. The 21 children and moms were a bunker that the govt was aware of. Somehow, a tank was parked over their exit. There is just so much more. If any good came out? BBC filmed it all while ours did not. This impatient group just have up and decided to gas them out using a gas that was declared TOO DANGEROUS AND DEADLY to even use in WAR!! WACO haunts me. If you don't know the story, this was close to the truth with some major deletions, of course, so their atrosities over and over don't come out. ASSAULT ON WACO. I plan to see if it is available from the Military Channel for purchase. So many don't know that our govt planned and carried out mass murder on it's own citizens less than 20 years ago.
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A Mr. Schroeder was killed outside the compound early on, his body riddled with bullets and stuck upon the fence he was crawling over. After several days and in the site of the compound, a helicopter used a large grappling hook to dislodge him and take him away. The children were denied milk for days and sanitation was denied. The poor mothers used buckets to lower sewage from the windows in an attempt to keep clean and as sanitary as possible.
The Feds feared Koresh would committ suicide in the beginning, a fear that Koresh continually told them was not true and is all on record. Agent Jamar, the Death Man with no patience, advised Janet Reno he felt that Koresh would do this and take everyone with him.. so she foolishly authorized the assault on Day 51 with the use of tear gas. As prepared as the Davidians were, their small number of gas masks were no match for the CF4 Gas, the most deadly & tortuous. Long before they were burned alive, they suffered great pain. There was NO reason to not wait a few more days. Conditions were being met... There is so much more but this, I know, is much for you who are new to this. I interviewed Koresh's mother just before the attack. No one, believed they would storm the families.
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The Montana Militia forced a stand off a couple of months later, but this time they learned and waited them out and no one died.
The Pain Is Coming Back.
I don't write of my crazy afflictions in any way to pull in some sympathy. Just the opposite happens to me.. you say how sorry you feel or how worried you are about me and I pull in your sorrow and concerns and wrap it up into a dose of optimism. I grow from your support, not your sadness. It is not I don't appreciate your humble words of condolence or sorrow for me but knowing you are there with me, always, is literally like taking a pill. An upper, an energy booster. You send me from feeling alone here in this blogasphere or on facebook to a higher degree. My worries and pain has a support system. I just try to leave out my occasional bursts of utter sorrow and fear. Now, tears are the best medicine of all.
Tears let the dam break; allow the tension and fears to burst open and flow freely, relieving the pressure that has been building and building. Tension and fear, literally, tightens your muscles. Soon you not only have stress and worry, your muscles begin to ache and tense and you are a mess. Cry.
In front of your family, in your bathroom or under covers. God gave us tears and emotions for a reason. It can be refreshing, like a sauna, hot tub, pedicure or haircut.
Just days after my doctor felt my legs were strictly a sign of the Zetia and Pravachol, the pain is coming back. It is almost as if the tendons behind my knees and around my ankles are stretched to a breaking point. I am back to waking every 30 min or so to sit up and lift my leg up and wrap the blanket to keep it from touching the other leg. My ankles are getting so painful I have to sit up in bed and lift them, place them and moan as I try to position them.
Was it the medicine? It is not the Sciatic Pinch I deal with.. it is once again getting to a point where my mobility is in peril. Could the damage have been done and this is it? Or is it more? Am I missing fluid in my joints and bone to bone?
I ask little more than good thoughts and positive attitudes. Maybe it isn't the meds I took and stopped? Or maybe the damage is permanent. Or ???? Time to go back to work on it before I begin to be unable to walk. I don't plan on letting that happen, The calf pain is coming back...pray for me.
Tears let the dam break; allow the tension and fears to burst open and flow freely, relieving the pressure that has been building and building. Tension and fear, literally, tightens your muscles. Soon you not only have stress and worry, your muscles begin to ache and tense and you are a mess. Cry.
In front of your family, in your bathroom or under covers. God gave us tears and emotions for a reason. It can be refreshing, like a sauna, hot tub, pedicure or haircut.
Just days after my doctor felt my legs were strictly a sign of the Zetia and Pravachol, the pain is coming back. It is almost as if the tendons behind my knees and around my ankles are stretched to a breaking point. I am back to waking every 30 min or so to sit up and lift my leg up and wrap the blanket to keep it from touching the other leg. My ankles are getting so painful I have to sit up in bed and lift them, place them and moan as I try to position them.
Was it the medicine? It is not the Sciatic Pinch I deal with.. it is once again getting to a point where my mobility is in peril. Could the damage have been done and this is it? Or is it more? Am I missing fluid in my joints and bone to bone?
I ask little more than good thoughts and positive attitudes. Maybe it isn't the meds I took and stopped? Or maybe the damage is permanent. Or ???? Time to go back to work on it before I begin to be unable to walk. I don't plan on letting that happen, The calf pain is coming back...pray for me.
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