beware the cure

not only am i not getting better, i seem to be getting worse and i think it is from the medicine i am taking. how this came down was the dentist who did the surgery gave me an antibiotic but then after taking it for a week i end up with a fever of 102 so i go to the v.a. and my doctor there gives me AVELOX, a much more powerful antibiotic, and then the real fun begins: oh my fever goes down after a couple of days but my left hand cramps up so much that it is unusable, my right leg cramps up, my right arm cramps up, my lips break out in blisters, sweat pours off me at night and when i wake up the bed is drenched. i then read the warnings about the drug and all of these things are side effects and can be very serious. each one of them with the exception of the blistering lips (which is highly unattractive, i might add) comes with the warning "see your doctor immediately". fucking great, the v.a. is closed on weekends and i am not going to some emergency room where there are people stacked up to the ceiling and get charged several thousand dollars to be told, "see your doctor for another prescription." so what i am doing is not taking any more of this until i talk to dr. leon on monday. it has been 24 hours since i last took a pill and guess what?, hand is okay, leg is okay, blisters are gone, arm is okay. think i should take another pill? guess not.

besides all of that, unless i am on my death bed tonight, i am going to see DR.JOHN AND THE NEVILLE BROTHERS at the hilton where i have 4th row center tickets. this is the very first time they have ever toured together and should be a tremendous show. i saw the neville brothers in new orleans last year at jazz fest which was the first time they had played in new orleans since katrina and, as i told you then, it was a spiritual experience and brought tears to the eyes of all who were there. arron neville's voice is a national treasure and if you have never heard these guys....DO SO! dr. john also is something special. i do hope he does WALK ON GILDED SPLINTERS because it is the most unusual version of that song ever recorded. and what a show man he is. if i am still alive tomorrow i will tell you about the concert.

i know that almost everyone who reads this is someone who reads, i can tell by your comments, and i want to tell you again to read WEB OF DEBT which is so incredibly relevant to what is going on that it is scary. same with SHOCK DOCTRINE. it is the banks who have done this to us and there is a cure but it is radical. read these books. educate yourself and then pass it on. it is we the people who have to turn things around, we cannot count on politicians to do it. obama, as sincere as he is, is tied to the old ways and unless we speak up and demand some fundamental changes in our money policies the current situation will reoccur over and over and over again as it as done for the past century.

oh well, back to basketball and fruit juices.

peace to us all