Oh, what a thrill it is to read the side-effects of the prescription drugs I'm taking to deal with rheumatoid arthritis. Neither one of them were specifically designed for arthritis. The methotrexate was created to combat cancer, and the hydroxychloroquine was designed to deal with malaria. I was also given a new prescription for steroids to reduce the inflammation even more. They must figure I'm close to self-emulation or whatever it's called when people suddenly burn completely up without harming the chair they sit in when it happens. Admittedly, that would sure resolve any burial expenses. Even the bones burn up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxychloroquine
The big deal is that all these drugs offer an anti-inflammation effect. RA makes me hot stuff, in a way, but that don't translate into being sexy. The most worrisome side-effect of this new drug is how it affects the eyes. Like I'm not blind enough already. I already have cataracts in both eyes. The one in my right eye is operable and I have papers to go to an optometrist presently about that.
My new rheumatologist told me yesterday he would be making appointments for me to get my eyes checked regularly because of the medicine. Now, I'm wondering whether the side-effects of the new medicine might affect me getting the cataracts removed. If I get blind as a bat from the medicine, what possible difference could it make if I have cataract covering my eyes?
I also got stuck in the arm to test me to see if I've ever been exposed to tuberculosis and small pox. I gotta drive over to the VA in Fayetteville to have a nurse look at that and sign a paper they gave me. Dealing with my health problems is about all I do anymore but write, meditate, use my cardio-glide machine, and walk. What if I live to be a hundred? What a drag, man.
I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
