March 21, 2007

• Trust the Doctor

  Updates on the 5 Ks.  Writing zero.  Been sort of on the sidelines with poison ivy, although been staying up a lot, so should have been writing I guess.  More on that later.  OK.  Thought the race was at 10, it was at 9:15.  Got there late, tried to play catch up.  Did pass a couple of walkers.  Came in at about 50 minutes on the 5K (counting from 9:15 - so that counted the time I spent getting my number and my t-shirt).  Walked much of it cause my 11YO daughter wasn’t quite able to run the whole thing, but we did run at the end, and didn’t cheat too much (just a slight detour through a parking lot trying, in vain, to catch up to her grandmother who walks faster than I run).  Ran it with a severe case of poison ivy on both legs and arms.  Left leg was swollen.  It had been coming on strong since the week before.  Ran twice before the race anyway, then in the 5k.  Then to the doctor the next day.

  Let me tell you about doctors.  Don’t trust ‘em.  They’ll be prescribing you steroids which diminish your ability to fight infection, at the same time as you have an infection, then potent anti-biotics, of a whole new breed, called fluoroquinolone antibiotics will be prescribed, the one I was told to take was called Levaquin.  It was expensive, but at least I didn’t take it.  A little birdie said “remember Larium” and I decided I would see what former patients were saying about this drug.  Saved myself debilitation of the joints and tendons.  Permanent damage!!! Nice to know the doctors are doing no harm.  Nice to know they are listening to the drug companies that have a vested interest in the drugs they want prescribed.

  Really.  So I took a different antibiotic along with a steroid that diminished my ability to fight the infection (cause you can’t just stop taking those once you start) and made my leg hurt and kept me up all night for two days.  Or maybe that was the anti-histamine that they prescribed for itch, which didn’t stop any itch, and didn’t make me tired like it was supposed to.  I kept taking it and then I kept staying up.  Whaaaa?  I never had insomnia before.  It’s quite uncomfortable.
  

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