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cityofangelslady New name for a feature at City of Angels Blog – PippiLeaks: Documents scanned for everyone in the world to click enlarge and read for free forever about sex crime coverups in the Catholic Church, here are 4 more from New Mexico, plus 2 bonus posts:
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“Destruction of documents took place in considerable measure, and wide-ranging collections of documents were stored outside the Palace in private dwellings, and thus made susceptible to manipulation.”
“Vital documentation, affecting for example former activities of the person under investigation or the reasons for a change of diocese in the case of incardinated priests, was missing in most cases. There was no….
cityofangelslady It started as a joke, I’d say:
Yeah I can’t afford health insurance, and I might die early as a result but there’s medical marijuana at the corner store and Viagra on the internet, so at least I’ll die happy. That joke was at the end of a column I wrote three years ago about going to free clinics with “blood in the stools” and still never getting any diagnostic work done. I’m still waiting for County to call me with an appointment for a colonoscopy, I’ve been waiting more than a year. I’ve since moved out of that County…
An email today from Reading Glasses Shopper featured the “John Lennon Full-Frame Reader” as a Friday Find for $8 until midnight today only. I would buy a pair, but the Lennon Reader only goes up to 3.5 strength and I’m shopping for 4.0 or higher. Still I’m happy to see another thriving business selling medical care online that people used to get from doctors, as it’s all I’ve got…
A good six years ago when my daughter and I were homeless, I used up my last set of contact lenses and discovered that the reading glasses you buy at a Walgreens type store will suffice when you can’t afford the optometrist. My eyes seem to have adjusted to the 4.0 strength glasses I’ve been able to find online where some pairs go all the way up to 7.00 in magnifying strength. The strongest glasses you can find in drugstores is 3.25 if you’re lucky. I think there’s some concern somewhere that keeps chain retailers from selling reading glasses stronger than 3.25 but online you can prescribe yourself all the way to total blindness.
It is kind of scary.
I mean, in twenty years, will the USA be full of blind people with cataracts and glaucoma and other disease that could have been treated? Like a third world country, fourth world?
The ads on TV for prescription drugs today are truly unprecedented. I mean a 60 second commercial where 45 seconds are spent telling you all the side effects you might encounter if you take this drug, and the other drugs that you might be taking that make the drug in this commercial deadly, and what side effects you could have from the drug and if you have those deadly reactions, go at once to an emergency room.
Here is the scenario I imagine from commercials for prescription drugs:
Most Americans who do have health insurance, have opted into a low cost plan. When I have had health insurance in past ten years, the doctors I’ve gone to have barely spoken English and sometimes I’ve even wondered how legitimate their license on the wall really was. My favorite was the little Armenian man who was going to do in-office minor surgery on me, and as he picked up his instruments I heard him say, “oops.”
How many of us are going into one of the doctors to whom we’ve been assigned by our insurance company, and not feeling like we can talk to the doctor at all, so we just asked for the drug we wanted, based on the TV commercial we saw, and the doctor wrote the prescription? Then when we get home we can wait for the commercial to come on again, so we can try to write down all the side effects to watch for after starting the drug.
As I search the internet for a place where I can buy glasses stronger than 4.0, wondering if the little bit of medical marijuana I smoke will keep me from getting glaucoma like my dad and aunt on both sides of the family had, using Fixodent to glue back in old tooth fillings and hopefully with lots of mouthwash keeping my teeth from rotting, staying away from men who take Viagra, when maybe I really should be looking for a man who takes Viagra, hoping that the muscle relaxant I bought from Canada won’t have a bad interaction with the pain killer I bought from India… I keep reminding myself.
We’re not meant to stay on this planet for more than 80 years or so anyway, so if I die a few years early of no health insurance, the difference is just one tiny blip in time in the totality of the cosmos. (See, it’s easier today to get LSD than an antibiotic.)
As I posted this entry just now on AlterNet, a commercial for yet another medication came on saying,
“Interaction with other drugs such as Prilosex might result in heart attack or stroke, but don’t stop taking this medication suddenly as your risk of heart attack or stroke may increase. Do not take this drug if you are going to have surgery, especially if you have recently had a stroke, or if you think you might have a stroke in the future, as truth is, anyone can have a stroke so a stroke really wouldn’t be a result of taking this medication, and this commercial protects us from litigation should patients die after taking our product.”
Or something like that.
(Posted by Kay Ebeling who produces City of Angels Blog as one of a hundred thousand victims of pedophile priests in the USA seeking truth and justice, but that is a whole nother topic.)
