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Heath Ledger's Accidental Overdose - Discussion Thread (Was: Breaking News)
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: jmmgallagher on February 07, 2008, 09:49:05 pm ---I'll just add, if it is at all useful:
22 months ago, I had a stroke. At least one month prior I knew I was ill, and for more than two weeks prior I was under the care of a doctor (I will also say, obviously, this person is no longer my doctor).
In any case. For several days before my stroke, when I first thought I had a bad flu, and my then doctor finally decided I had plurisy (...no comment...) I was actually in pain, and I was taking two doctor prescribed medications (only): Hydrocodone Bitartrate (every four hours) and Hydrocodone Acetaminophen (every eight hours). Be aware: I was a person who normally hated to take even a baby aspirin. A nice cup of tea was my usual--anyway. Now I take five prescribed medications a day. Whatever. You get the idea.
So. I have my stroke. I am found a few hours later, and I taken to the hospital in an ambulance; my lips was blue and the paramedical people did what they were supposed to do, and I survived. (Thank you, paramedical people.) But:
Very early in the wee hours of the next day, a doctor (who later became a friend) came to my bed (I was still in the ER) and asked one of my friends watching over me (yes, the powers-that-be let two friends, one at a time, into the ER--I was in BAD shape) to come outside and talk. The reason? After my blood workup, the doctors (who knew me from Adam, meaning not at all) decided I was a drug addict. Dire as the situation was, my friend laughed. No, I was no drug addict.
I had been taking exactly the medications prescribed by a single physician. No more and no less.
And Heath can no longer speak in his own defense.
Anyway. For whatever it's worth.
--- End quote ---
Thank you, John.
L
PS, I am so glad to have you back...I have missed you so much. Love and hugs.
Aloysius J. Gleek:
Thank you, Leslie.
(Hugs Leslie)
;D
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: jmmgallagher on February 07, 2008, 10:00:49 pm ---Thank you, Leslie.
(Hugs Leslie)
;D
--- End quote ---
Oh....
Now Leslie gets teary. We are obviously not over the emotional stuff here...
Let's see, for a moment of levity..
"Sauteed elk should be served well salted. Who knew!"
Leslie hugs John...
Verona:
Robert Ali, of the Australasian Chapter of Addiction Medicine, said the mix of drugs would have meant Ledger's brain would not have been able to regulate his breathing. "All the drugs he took affect the central nervous system," he said. "Used together, the brain will not be able to process when it needs to breathe."
That's EXACTLY what I thought probably happened!
Poor sweetie. :-\ Sometimes I miss him so much I can hardly stand it.
HerrKaiser:
Shit...I better get a drink.
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