". . . this is the way people
entering the hospital begin to go downhill and face complications."
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| It starts like this. |
h/t Lew Rockwell
These are my prefacing remarks. Hospitals get you in, no, maybe I should use their elite professional term of "admit." Right, hospitals admit you. You've earned it. How do they do that? They have to come up with a diagnosis first. My mother's ER doctor claimed she had pneumonia. She didn't. Something else was causing her bleeding. Pneumonia doesn't cause bleeding. But do you think that anyone in the family knew the difference between pneumonia and the causes of her bleeding? Do you think that her doctor or anyone of the attending physicians would tell her or the family the truth about pneumonia symptoms? What, are you crazy? And is bleeding so bad? Her ER doctor diagnosed her with pneumonia to give the family a bone to chew on while he admitted her so that the slew of hospital-contracted technicians could roll their holy hardware in and out of her room and get paid. And why not? Her health insurance was a veritable ATM machine, like the ones you drive up to, put your card in, press a few keys, and hundred dollar bills come shooting out. Once inside the hospital, the family expected her to get well and be out in a day or two. She was in for ten days. Her conditioned worsened, of course. She was on the anti-biotic, Zosyn, for each of the ten days, a standard anti-biotic. Insomnia is one of its side effects. So the doctors ran their tests, one even proving that she had no pneumonia. They just kept pumping her with Zosyn. But the doctor hemmed and hawed and hedged his bets by keeping her. The family didn't know their rights. They accepted the doctor prescription of death. She was after all 89 years old. You have to love it how doctors, well anybody for that matter, use people's age against them. Her one immunity resource, her gut flora, was destroyed by the Zosyn. Se la vie. Remember that hospitals have bills to pay. Hospitals have things to sell you. But they don't really give you a choice, since the product is often forced or coerced upon you by a doctor, who operate more like money managers making sure you take and buy their dope. Don't do it.
Here is Bill Sardi . . . .
I
had made it to age 70 without any chronic diseases and no need to take any
prescription drugs. Last Tuesday afternoon that ended. The mild
chest pressure and shortness of breath began Tuesday afternoon while I was
driving to my son’s counseling session in Chino, CA. I began popping
vitamin C tablets every few minutes, which is all that I had available in the
car.
I
drove to Pomona Valley Hospital emergency room within an hour where I was
quickly ushered into a hallway to undergo an immediate electrocardiogram.
It appeared normal on the print out but the technician said he saw an abnormal
beat on his screen (a premature ventricular contraction). I took my
pulse. My heart was skipping a beat every six beats. I was
having real heart trouble.
It took another 40
minutes for emergency room personnel to take me into a treatment room and give
me a nitroglycerin tablet to dilate my blood vessels, a blood thinner and an
aspirin tablet to halt any clots. Within 20 minutes my condition was
stable; no shortness of breath.
My cardiac enzyme level (troponin
level) was 0.6 upon admission (0.3 is normal), 1.5 later in the emergency room
and eventually rose to 50.0 the next day. High troponin levels indicate a
heart attack (blockage of circulation in a coronary artery).
I
was admitted to the hospital late that afternoon and began dealing with the
challenges of hospitalization.
First,
the nurse offered me vaccines for the flu and pneumonia. I declined,
saying I didn’t come to the hospital with a health crisis intending to get
injected with two pathological germs, a mycobacterium and a virus. I said
this is the way people entering the hospital begin to go downhill and face
complications.
The
male nurse acquired personal information for the hospital chart. He
didn’t believe I was 70 years old and had me take my driver’s license out of my
wallet to confirm my birthdate.
The
ordeal of staying overnight in a hospital was challenging. Uninterrupted sleep
is almost impossible. Light pollution (I had to cover up 9 lights in my
room) and noise pollution (the incessant “beep” of the
heart monitoring
machine directly outside my room) were agonizing. I got 4 hours of sleep
that first night. (How does anybody get well in an environment like that?)
At
5AM the nurses and technicians began working me up with blood tests and
prepping me for an angiogram (dye test of my coronary arteries). At 7 AM
I was being wheeled in my bed to the cardiac cath room on the ground floor.
A humorous moment came when my hospital bed wouldn’t fit into the
elevator. Made you feel like they really planned things well (??).
In
the cath lab a team of 5 nurses and technicians were busy moving x-ray machines
and monitors into place and setting up instruments. I informed them I
didn’t want to hear the word “oops” during my procedure.
I
was offered a pain reliever and a sedative that I once again declined, saying
these drugs would induce shallow breathing that could result in
pneumonia. The nurse couldn’t believe I was refusing the medication.
About
40 minutes later the cardiologist had found a single coronary artery that was
blocked (blood clots, not cholesterol) and placed a stent (a wire prop).
He kept asking if I felt any pain. I said no. The stent was
introduced through an artery in my wrist instead of more customary route
through the groin.
I
didn’t feel any better after the procedure because my heart circulation had
already been re-established with medications. I had told the cardiologist
I didn’t want a stent unless it was absolutely necessary. I got a stent
anyway whether I liked it or not. Now I have a time bomb in my chest, as
stents tend to attract blood platelets that result in clots. So the very
health threat I walked in with is still a present danger that only 8 or 9
months taking blood thinners will avert. After a few months the tissue
covers the stent and then there is nil risk of a clot.
I
would spend another night in the hospital just for monitoring. My first
meal in the hospital was described as a special cardiac lunch. It was
comprised of zero-fat/high sugar carbohydrate foods like soda pop (can you
believe?), sugary custard, a sugary jello cup and some sliced beef with
noodles.
I
had to call my culinary friends, Tom and Valerie Aruffo, who cater events for
me, and they brought me real food to eat (salad greens, meat for protein, etc.)
By
then I had others bring me other dietary supplements: potassium/magnesium
capsules; zinc; fish oil; vitamin D; vitamin C, resveratrol. The nurse
allowed me to keep them as long as I hid them from the charge nurse.
The
cardiologist and hospital staff had great difficulty assessing my case. I
had normally low blood pressure (129/69 upon hospital admission), low
cholesterol, normal blood sugar (5.5 hemoglobin A1c), and was normal weight (12
pounds over my high school weight) with no history of tobacco use or over-use
of alcohol. Furthermore, to confound everything, I had full heart pumping
pressure (ejection fraction) after the event, which means no tissue
damage to the heart muscle. I didn’t fit the mold.
This
latter phenomenon is explained by my daily intake of resveratrol (Longevinex®), that activates internal
antioxidants in the heart tissue prior to a blockage of circulation, which in
turn prevents or limits damage to heart muscle. I explained my case on
the telephone to Nate Lebowitz MD, a Ft. Lee, NJ preventive cardiologist, and
he believes resveratrol spared me from heart damage.
What
goes unexplained is that the cardiologist who implanted the stents in my
coronary artery was not the least bit curious as to why I had no loss of
pumping pressure or why I had reached age 70 without any chronic disease.
When I explained I have been taking a resveratrol pill he said he didn’t
know what that was. In fact, the doctor ordered that I cease taking
all dietary supplements and continue with the problematic drugs he prescribed.
He
had me take an ACE inhibitor (lisinopril), which drove my blood pressure down
to 90/40 and I felt mentally fatigued. I’m holding that drug aside for
now. When blood pressure is that low tissues above the heart (brain,
eyes, ears) don’t receive adequate blood circulation. I
also refused to take a statin cholesterol-lowering drug, which the doctor
didn’t put up much of a fight over. Maybe in the back of his mind he
knows statins are useless and problematic.
I’m
embarking on an accelerated 90-day artery-cleansing regimen of arginine (5000
mg0, chondroitin (5000 mg), vitamin C/lysine-proline, resveratrol. I’m
relying on molecular medicine, not synthetic drugs, to see me through.
For
all of my friends who called to offer get-well messages, made me chicken and
lentil soup, and provided me support while in the hospital, I am ever
grateful. I’m back home spending time with my 11-year old son Matthew,
who helped pa-pa wash the car. Updates will be provided in due time.
