A sleepless night
another family fight
GP not too keen
but another script I did glean
It keeps me calm
surely it’s no harm
Told son to stop the kids drinking
what can they be thinking?
The young ones today
go too easily astray
What if they drink and drive?
For high morals they should strive.
In my day parents were strict
good habits one could predict
I wouldn’t drive after drink.
Must tip those other pills down the sink.
They didn’t ease my pain
so got valium again.
Doctor wants me to change
but I know they keep me sane!
In hospital now from a car crash
Specialist says valium must go
What does he know?
Says I’m going blind
And could lose my mind
Called my valium a drug
But I’m not a thug?
So don’t be a mug
Pharmaceuticals are drugs!
13.07.2005 … and another poem to be wary of your doctor
I do hear from time to time that parents in many countries can’t be restricted up with their own children, even if they are going down the hill. Kids can easily summon police if they feel insecure by their parents behavior.
Such is not a norm in my part of the world, which is indeed a huge huge blessing, I say.
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yes that maybe be but kids do need discipline and boundaries to grow up well …
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Well said, and so important, Kate.
Medical professionals are often too quick to prescribe drugs. Especially pain meds.
😦
When I went in to the doc with pain the first thing they want to do is give me a pill…I said to them, “I don’t want the pain med, I want you to find out what is causing the pain!”
But, then I hate swallowing pills, so I’m always looking for other remedies.
Even after my cancer surgery I didn’t take anything stronger than an off the shelf pain reliever and I only took it for a few days.
(((HUGS)))
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I have never taken pre-op or after op meds … meditation is a great tool for dealing with pain and having had major spinal surgery for two cut sciatic nerves I do know a bit about pain …
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Yes, and I use some great breathing and focal techniques I learned in Lamaze labor and childbirth classes back in the late 1970’s/early 1980’s. 🙂 I took NO drugs and had NO epidurals, etc., during the labor and deliveries of all my babies. 🙂 I am darn proud of that!
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wow that is a ginormous achievement Carolyn, well done you! But it’s so darned hard I don’t blame those mothers that need help …
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I don’t blame them either. But I gave birth in the late 1970’s and early ’80’ in California and they were encouraging med-free natural childbirth at that time, so I tried it. And it was enormously painful (WORST pain I’ve EVER felt) and yet Lamaze worked and helped me through. And I was so glad afterwards as I had no pain meds/drugs in me and there was none to pass on to the babies. They were SO alert and aware after popping out! 😀
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oh how sweet … Lamaze, is that the father?
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Are you teasing me?!
Lamaze was NOT the father of my children. 😀 But I do appreciate Dr. Fernand Lamaze greatly! 🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamaze_technique
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lol obviously not included in my studies … hey your kids might have been better off financially if you’d teamed up with a specialist … bit poorly of you 😉
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Oh kate i can totally relate to this…it seemed that one prescribed medicine will eventually lead you to more medications. Back in 2004 i had an emergency throat surgery. As a teacher i suffered throat problems ..little did i know that there were nodules growing…then came that fateful day when i have to go through the knife..well to cut the story after the surgery my doctor said that they had removed my thyroid gland because it is where those nodules has been multiplying.
So no more nodules..thyroid gone..
And i have to be on a thyroid replacement hormone pill for the rest of my life..fast forward 2 years after the surgery i read that the doctors could have just removed the nodules and spared my thyroid because chances of the nodules recurring would be very slim and if it does it would take so many years before it even will grow bigger…but thyroid when removed…patient would have to be dealing with multiple medical conditions since its our first line of defense..so from that they on i was already very keen about doctors advise (with all due respect)
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Oh Mich I’m very sorry this happened to you … our thyroid is crucial to bodily functions and now you are dependent on medications .. very sad 🙂
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but you are still here to tell the story and enjoy your family … that’s also very important 🙂
But we must double check any advice they give us as they are also human and make many mistakes …
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It’s a vicious cycle which needs to be broken. Informed patients can make a choice but actually doctors should take a principled stand against prescribing such drugs.
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much quicker and easier for them to write a script than actually listen to what is bothering their patient … shove them through like cattle in order to charge more …
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I know…it is such a shame!
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it goes completely against the reasons they became doctors but that’s our society, quick money less action …
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Yes, Kate. Seeing doctors running after money is surely very depressing.
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I’d call it criminal …
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We all have something to face up to on the potential of addiction, but script drugs are among the worst per capita. I’m one of those nuts that uses homeopathics and I must say I’ve been inorganic drug free for 35 years.
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wow that is impressive Paul … my stupid mistake was to take the anti-hormonal medication for my breast cancer for ten months … the side-effects were horrendous and it took 5 months to clear from my system … huge weight gain, only managed to lose half + hearing impairment! It is so wrong as femara has not been fully tested … they often use Aussies as guinea pigs!
Did you read about the faulty medical implants … 😦
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I am so sorry to hear that, bugger! Yes I did read about the implants – this is all so wrong on every level.
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absolutely … but still it goes on, not sure how our medical experts or govt are “protecting” us??
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They are protecting you by taking your money and rights so that you don’t inadvertently spend it on yourself.
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lol just like the insurance companies huh … heavens we should make our own decisions on how to spend our own cash 😉
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Yes they are and the addiction that comes from them are scary.😞
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exactly people seem to forget that they are just as addictive and life ruining as illegal drugs 😦
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SO true and you write beautifully to bring awareness to these realities.
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The big pharma giant and their dirty play…one drug to counteract of other three and so on and so forth.,
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it’s big bucks so they play it their way … am so blessed that I don’t need medications 🙂
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The way you conjure poems out of the most gruesome of all things is just mind-boggling. 😊
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Yes the legal aspect is visible in the post Kate
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it’s actually about drugs Kurian?
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does help if you actually read it before commenting Kurian ….
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A word of warning well said.
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Just because one has a prescription, it doesn’t mean it’s not a drug.
Well said.
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most think it’s ok coz it came via the medical system … but the side effects are just as damaging 😦
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Often worse. I wonder why some meds are even prescribed when the side effects are worse than the ailment they are treating.
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indeed so many need another 2-3 pills to counteract the side-effects … and so the pharmas make more money which our doctors reap huge payback from … people need to realise it is little different to the illegal drug cartels!
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She keeps running to the shelter
Of her mothers little helper
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Oh the evils of drugs, so very close to my heart, my elder brother is still a drug user at 69 years old, and I’ve too many stories to tell…… but I keep caring………. I keep trying………. I keep crying….
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