Lately, this expresses my emotions --
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Did Jackson Commit Suicide?
The coroner's report is not yet in, but investigators are paying special attention to Propofol, one of the drugs found at Jackson's house, and the one that an expert says has a 100% death rate for most abusers.
"All the reports I've read of those patients have died," said Dr. Paul Wischmeyer of the University of Colorado. "A cc too much of this drug can change you from being high to being dead.
"It's not like heroin or cocaine or other drugs where there is a margin for error. There is no margin for error for this drug. It kills people."
The only abusers who stand a chance are the few doctors who become addicted. Wischmeyer led a 2006-07 study of Propofol after a colleague died from the drug. The study surveyed 126 teaching hospitals, which reported 25 abusers. Seven, or 28%, had died using the drug. Six were medical residents. One was a medical assistant.
Wischmeyer then did a less formal investigation into nonphysician abusers and found that taking the drug amounted to a death sentence.
"That somebody would be receiving this at home, that's just unfathomable," he said.
Despite such dangers, the study found more than 70% of the facilities surveyed did not regulate the drug. These accounted for all seven of the medical-staff fatalities. "It sits out on carts," Wischmeyer said.
His study cites the case of one 31-year-old doctor who began taking the drug "to reduce his feelings of boredom, inner tensions and depression." He was soon injecting himself dozens of times a day.
A case study presented back in 1992 by the journal Anesthesiology described another doctor in his early 30s who started taking Propofol for "a variety of stressors." He was soon injecting himself 10 to 15 times a day.
"He stated that by this stage he was no longer taking the Propofol because of stress but because he had an overwhelming compulsion and craving to use the drug again," the study noted.
The abusers tended to have a prior history of drug abuse, not unlike Jackson's struggle with painkillers.
"Propofol was often the final drug used in a pattern of controlled substance abuse," the study noted. "This pattern may be because of the ease of obtaining Propofol."
Sunday, July 5, 2009
A Seasoned Life --
A Seasoned Life
by Hazelmarie Elliott
June 16,1951, Columbus, Ohio
I've sang on springtime's sweetest morning,
enjoyed the whispering of summer's breeze,
danced upon a new day's dawning,
frolicked in the twilight's eve.
I've felt the sun upon my shoulders,
laughed, when raindrops touched my brow,
felt the tide of sea surround me,
slept beneath the oakened bough.
I've felt time, and all its passing,
known life's passion, and known its pain,
realized each season's ending,
suffered losses, and relished gain.
I've felt the warmth of kisses glowing,
saw the light of love within,
shared the dreams of youthful yearning,
yearned for my youth, to live again.
I've felt sadness, in shadow's falling,
cried bitter tears as twilight fell,
felt life's joy, and felt life's anguish,
lived days of heaven, lived days of hell.
I've sang on days of autumn's splendor,
fell beneath winter's frosty spell,
remembered now, with heart a'burning,
those seasons past.....I loved them well.
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Thursday, July 2, 2009
My Love For You Sam --
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"My Love For You, My Sam --
I look forward to being with youevery single dayTo do things together or just to hear what you have to say..I will be there always for you especially when you are feeling down..And I'll do everything to get rid of that frown..I will love you truthfullyin every single way..And show you my love..how special you areeach and every dayI will be your protector, loving you as I know how, and will never departBecause my love, My love for you , comes from down very deep in my heart. Tags: | Edit Tags
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"My Lost Youth" I remember the gleams and glooms that dart Across the schoolboy's brain; Tthw song and the silence in the heart, That in part Are longings wild and vain. And the voice of that fitful song Sings on, and is never still: "A boy's will is thw wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." There are things of which I may not speak; There are dreams that cannot die; There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak, And bring a pallor into the creek, And a mist before the eye, And the words of that fatal song Come over me like a chill: "A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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