Topic: Outrageous
I'm sure to win no awards in a spelling bee, but you probably get the idea. The following reveals An American Tragedy of heartbreaking proportions.
My feisty little 81 year old mother thinks nothing of taking whatever pills her doctor prescribes, but is driven to extreme anxiety when I take a handful of natural supplements.
Someone else, quite a bit younger, in my personal realm was prescribed a modern miracle drug for her high blood pressure. Within two weeks she suffered massive heart failure. The doctors could find no reason whatsoever for the event. No heart abnormality, no clogged arteries, nothing. So of course they implanted a device which will send an electric shock to her heart if it skips a beat and will send a large jolt if it stops altogether. Then because of her body trying to reject the intrusion, they prescribed pills to counteract that reaction. Now she finds herself pregnant (an event in any other circumstance which would lead to joy and thanksgiving), but because of the side effects of the drug she is taking to trick her body into accepting the invasive device (strong chance of causing deformaties in fetuses) and the fact that she has a history of heart problems (which only began after taking the prescribed medicine for high blood pressure) she has been encouraged by her physician to abort the baby since it is almost sure to have abnormalities and carrying a baby to term would be life-threatening under her circumstances (ie, her "bad" heart).
Heaven save us from modern medicine! No thanks. I'll just keep on smelling like a clove of garlic, burping up fish oil, excercising, listening to soothing music and crossing my fingers.
"Knock on wood."
Learn of the miracle pill produced by the "Farmacy Factories" in The Dimension of Barbarik by reading
The Grim Shadow: A Modern Day Fable
Posted by neverevergiveup
at 3:11 PM PDT
Updated: Wednesday, 21 September 2005 9:14 AM PDT