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My Mother’s Meatloaf
I have quit the vegan diet, and here’s why. Ten days ago I wrote “Two Hearts on Whole Wheat” (http://behindthelockeddoors.wordpress.com/2012/04/27/two-hearts-on-whole-wheat/) about Dick and me. We both had gone vegan about eight months ago, and he had just had his annual … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, drugs, Health Care, Holistic, Medical care, Pharmaceuticals, physician
Tagged cholesterol, Comfort food, Conditions and Diseases, depression, diabetes, diabetes mellitus, doctors, drugs, glucose, Health, health care, Meat, Meatloaf, Medicine, metformin, patients, pharmaceuticals, Physician, vegan, Veganism, vegetarian
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May First
May first. Not feeling so good. Sleeping sixteen hours a day. Glucose 423 yesterday morning. Urine output up by 30%. Doctor says I’ll wind up in the hospital from dehydration within 3-5 days. That assumes I call for an ambulance. … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, drugs, Medical care, Pharmaceuticals, physician
Tagged blood sugar, diabetes, diabetes mellitus, emotion, Hyperglycemia, Sugar
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Doctors, Drugs and Why Bother?
(From 2002) What are you going to the doctor for? What do you want, and what does the doctor want? Is your doctor helping you live better? Is your ability to be a happy, productive member of society improved because … Continue reading
Happiness is . . .
In April 2001, despite having about a dozen chronic illnesses, I stopped taking drugs. So what have I learned in the past decade? I have learned that happiness consists of a good night’s sleep, a healthy diet, challenging … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Depression, disability, drugs, God, Health Care, Holistic, Medical care, Nature, Pharmaceuticals, physician, Spirituality, Values
Tagged acupuncture, air, alternative medicine, anesthesia, arthritis, Ativan, auto BiPAP, bipolar, celiac disease, chiropractic, chronic illness, community, Conditions and Diseases, depression, diabetes insipidus, diabetes mellitus, diagnosis, diet, Diet (nutrition), doctors, drugs, exercise, fever, glucose level, God, happiness, Health, health care, healthy, Hypertension, Hypnotherapy, immune system, light, Lorazepam, Medicine, menopause, mental health, Obstructive sleep apnea, patients, pharmaceuticals, problem solving, SAD, seasonal affectie disorder, sleep, Sleep disorder, spinal cord, spirituality, stress hormones, tendonitis, values
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Doctor-Controlled Diabetes
During the drugging years I had been diagnosed with diabetes mellitus, type II; the doctor had said, “Over weight and over forty.” It was diet controlled, that is, I progressively kept eliminating from my diet all the things that were pushing … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, drugs, Health Care, Medicaid, Medical care, Medicare, Pharmaceuticals, Power, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged carbohydrates, celiac disease, control, control freak, diabetes, diabetes mellitus, diet, dietician, doctor, Dr. Nasri Ghaly, Dr. Paul M. Cohen, drugs, endocrine, Glucophage, glucose, health care system, insulin, Joslin Clinic, persistent poly pharmacy, Physician, psychologist, sickness care system, side-effects, stress, Upstate Medical Center
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Is Not the Morning Near?
When my mother was six years old her uncle, Richard Hope, went swimming and road home at sunset in an open buggy and a wet bathing suit. He caught a cold that turned into pneumonia and three days later he … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Death, Depression, God, Health Care, Medical care, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals
Tagged Addison's disease, Alexander Fleming, Ativan, autoimmune, Bipolar disorder, chronic renal failure, diabetes mellitus, drugs, Elizabeth Woodlen, FDA, juvenile diabetes, lithium, Macrobid, medication, penicillin, pharmaceuticals, Physician, pneumonia, pulmonary fibrosis, Richard Hope, Sleep apnea
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Under a Waning Moon
Around 1982, Dr. Jenifer Rich prescribed lithium for my bipolar depression. She failed to monitor it. She should have checked lithium levels every two months, kidney function every six months, and cardiac function once a year. I didn’t know; I … Continue reading
Posted in Death, Health Care, Mental Illness & Health
Tagged antidepressants, bipolar, chronic renal failure, DDAVP, death, dehydration, depression, diabetes mellitus, diagnosis, dialysis, diarrhea, diuretics, drugs, end-of-life, endocrinology, GFR, glomerular filtration rate, HCTZ, health care, holistic, hypokalemia, immune system, kidney failure, kidney infection, lithium, low potassium, nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, nephrology, pharmaceuticals, physicians, psychiatric disorders, psychoneuroimmunoendocrinology, suicidal feelings, urine output, values
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