From Titanium To The Tango

I took Marlene to Dr P's on Thursday and discovered some more interesting facts about pharmaceuticals and medical proceedures. Marlene's "blue" flashes of light and specks that have been plaguing her since she used the Restasis eye drops was caused BY the eye drops. Apparently, there is some sort of blue 'dye' in it, which penetrated the surface of her eyes and is now floating around in there, and clogging up her tear ducts so they can't flush it out. It shows that even the seemingly most innocent common medicines contain elements that actually cause major damage to the body. I think it is a conspiracy to keep everyone on SOME kind of medicine, keep them going to Drs. and keep them imprisoned by insurance companies.
Then, we discovered that her ankle is really fractured, not just sprained as the X-rays supposedly showed 6 weeks ago. The injury is 0% healed, as if she just broke it yesterday. Sitting home in that boot for 6 weeks did absolutely nothing for it, and the physical therapy that the Dr. orderd actually made it worse! Dr. P found that when she fell, she threw her hip out and until that is re-aligned by the chiropractor, the ankle won't heal.
So, now, she is in the Dr/Insurance trap. Because the Dr. instructed her to take physical therapy, she has to do it or the Dr. can report it to her insurance company and they can drop her for not complying with the Dr's. orders. So she is going to tell her Dr. that she has had to change Drs., and then tell the Physical Therapy place that she is no longer under that Dr's. care, so she won't be coming back. I hope it works...
Then Dr. P told us about a sister at her hall who has been having terrible knee problems and excruciating pain. The med. Dr. had done all kinds of things to it, and finally told her there was absolutely nothing that could be done now, she had to have knee replacement surgery, to have it replaced with a fake knee made of Titanium. Dr. P begged her not to do it, and told her she could fix the problem. "Just trust me", she said "I KNOW what I'm talking about!" She did an extensive testing of it, and found that it was really a large ball of acid and syph-sych, ABOVE the knee joint, and wasn't the knee at all. The woman let her treat it, and took all of the program and suffered alot of pain while it was coming out and repairing. Wednesday when Dr. P saw her, the woman ran up to her and started *dancing* and jumping around, ecstatic that the pain and problem was GONE and she did not have any surgery!! Isn't that hysterical?
Well, I haven't written anything about Grandma and her recent saga of medical reactions. More on that later. She has been taking EPO or Procrit for ''anemia", and here is an interesting article about this treatment. The article clearly proves that the billions of dollars being made off of these drugs is of paramount concern. Once again, the FDA has goofed up, perhaps even knowingly, and ''discovered'' that the drugs are actually dangerous to your health. Marlene and I were discussing this on Thursday, she said look at how many times the FDA has been wrong and approved some medication only to find out that it is severly dangerous to your health. Alot of times they discover this because a bunch of people end up dieing from them! It has happened so often that in my book if the FDA has approved it, you better not take it because more than likely it is going to poison you.
Dr. P said she would like to do a study of people who have taken Restasis to see how many of them have severe tear duct blockages.
An example I just thought of is a comparison between Gramma and Marlene. Marlene has never taken much medicine, never taken blood pressure meds or cholesterol meds etc... And she is in great health especially for her age. Gramma, on the other hand, has lived on medicine for years and look at the state she is in. I'm sure that MOST of her problems are from all the meds. Tony has never taken these kinds of meds either, and now that he's started taking some he has signs of the effects. He is slowed down, and his appearance has aged quite a bit. I know he's 86, but my point is that the visible signs began soon after he started taking meds regularly.
Dr. P was telling us how unbelieveable the human body is in repairing itself. She told us of a documentary she saw about the eye, and how every morning the very surface of the eyeball ''burns'' off in order to expose a new, fresh viewing film for the day. She wants to get the video of it to show in the office.