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Date Posted: 20:23:55 09/03/02 Tue
Author: Rita
Subject: Chapter 23

The Walk-Over Page 1 of 4
Chapter 23 Words: 920

August 9, 1996



A month had passed since hubby’s common-bacterial-produced heart disease that required a cadaver to replace the bacterial-damaged area. The visiting nurse arrived for her scheduled visit. The patient who was my husband, and I had noticed a red spot that had the appearance of an infection. The visiting nurse, too, noticed that an infection was appearing in the area of the month-old pacemaker surgery. The nurse called the Michigan Heart Clinic in Ann Arbor.

Immediately, I drove my husband to Ann Arbor for the heart specialist to look at the pacemaker-area infection. While hubby and I were in the waiting room, I shared the 10-page Doxorubicin antibiotic write-up found in the TOXNET hazardous substance bank with one of the Michigan Heart office ladies. The dream titled “God Visits” was now two years old. It took me a long time to find the antibiotic that was a tumor fighter and also a virus fighter that was under the TOXNET N.L.M.’s Toxicology Data Network Hazardous Substance Data Bank. At the time of the first bombing of the World Trade Center, it was known that the drug-of-choice Gentamicin sulfate USP used on a six-week protocol would drug over-dose after a couple of weeks. Why not use several antibiotics, including one that was known to be antitumor/antiviral?

The heart clinic nurse made a copy of the interesting Doxorubicin antibiotic. It was made from a mutated bacterium discovered during the antibiotic era (1940-1960). We both thought that it was rather strange that there haven’t been more antibiotics made from the mutated bacterium strands. That would be a part of cell/germ evolution.

August 9, 1996 Page 2



A room was ready for hubby. Once inside hubby’s hospital room, a Cardiologist entered (I call a cardiologist a heart specialist). The cardiologist called in an Internal Medicine doctor (I call an Internal Medicine doctor a drug specialist) for additional advice about the medication suggestions. Both specialists entered the room to join hubby and I. The Internal Medicine who wore the white drug specialist jacket also had what appeared as hubby’s patient’s folder (which should have contained his Gentamicin Sulfate USP drug over-dosing) in her hand. The drug specialist professional said, “Gentamicin Sulfate.”

To my left a cool breeze had entered the room. The breeze represented the Hospital Ghost, whispering a Gentamicin Sulfate USP reminder. The air current intermixed with the drug specialist’s freshly spoken words to bring attention to what was being said. Apparently the patient’s folder held no information about the previous months sulfate drug overdose, nor did it contain the 10-page information on the patient’s most effective antibiotic, Doxorubicin. So I said, “The Gentamicin Sulfate caused serious side-effects. It shut down hubbys kidneys as much as the infection did!”

The drug specialist’s head dropped as her facial expression snarled: I am taught to be the Son of Satan. You have the nerve to question ME!

It was as if she knew that the United States drug law removed all patients’ rights to the more effective antibiotics. Calmly, the drug prescriber lifted a pleasant face, as a soft smile said, “We’ll try Flagyl.”



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“That one caused diarrhea,” I blurted. Then I remember that the diarrhea was in June, the month prior to hubby’s heart surgery. Flagyl was discontinued after a very short amount of time, but it was used again at the hospital in July, so I asked, “When hubby was here last month, Flagyl was one of several antibiotics used. Hubby had a drug reaction. There was a rash on both feet. Nothing was ever said about which antibiotic caused the rash -- a common visual-aid used for a drug/antibiotic reaction.”

The expert drug prescriber was holding what appeared as hubby’s medical folder, and yet, was prescribing every antibiotic that created additional problems! A medical customer should be informed about such reactions. The medical customer should have a copy of all his medical treatments and know what drugs he or she can or cannot take. After combining the questions about hubby’s disappeared medical records that contained both the infection and antibiotic dilemmas, I wanted to know more about the second antibiotic choice by saying, “Besides Flagyl is made from E. Coli. One of the oldest known tumor producers.”

The drug prescriber gave a sigh as if to say this is my third and final choice. I will have to get a Michigan politician to pass a law where NO one questions a drug prescriber! An unknown to me antibiotic was mentioned. Both doctors reassured hubby and I that it was a good one, and it was going to be the one used. A good antibiotic would show results in one day. It didn’t. (Five days later on August 13, 1996, the drug specialist commented that the antibiotic didn’t look like it was working. Be patient.)

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Meanwhile, Bill wished to meet some of the hospital staff from his previous visit. It had been 18 days since he was released on July 22, 1996 after his heart surgery. Hubby had arrived at St. Joseph in Ann Arbor by ambulance. Hence he didn’t know that he had changed hospitals, so he never got to see much of this one.

Bill remembered many of his hallucinations from his previous visit, and he wanted the hospital staff to notice that his conversation and actions had greatly improved once he was removed from the drug influence.

The August hospitalization generated an additional $25,000 in hospital expenses. Personally, I would rather have the more effective antibiotics available to me.

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