I don't know exactly what went on here, and it should be looked into, but I think this is another case where the media is trying to impose their values above that of the parent and of spirituality and the power of prayer.
A wake up call for those with heart disease/issues like me to see a doctor despite the cost. Go check out your blood pressure at one of those stores that has a free machine. Get your blood checked out for diabetes. Since I started exercising I feel better, but there are episodes where I don't feel so great. Yesterday I rode the treadmill for an hour increasing the incline every five minutes by 5, then every 2 minutes by 10...of course this was after two weeks of not doing as much of a hard work out so I stayed on a 3 for speed. By the time I got off the machine ending at a 15.0 incline, I felt like I was going to puke, and deaf enough to feel like I just came out of a rock concert. After some stretching, a shower, and taking it easy for the night I felt great when I woke up. BTW, I have had the very symptoms in this news article. I have not been eating as healthy when I don't work out. When you're tight on finances, you eat what you get. Go for the frozen veggies instead of the donuts, or other refined sugar if you can, etc. Eat healthy. Exercise. I probably worked myself too hard, but I was in a competition.
Hopefully I will go check things out today. I've been putting it off because my deductible, plus exams, plus labs are more than I have right now. So, I'm going to see what they can do for me. I still have to come up with quite a bit that I don't have to get the full treatment.
Just on the news was a new hot topic. Singulair is now being investigated for being a cause of suicides.
So, should those parents be put in jail for allowing their child to take a drug with such side effects?
I may sound a bit synical to some, but I am dead serious since as a parent I know I've made many decisions for myself and my children that could have went many different ways. When I let them take sports, they could have been injured or killed. I also allowed doctors to inject them and give them many drugs over the years that could have also injured or killed them. I also chose not to allow some medical procedure be done and relied on prayer to get them through it. Fortunately they made it through all my decisions.
I'll tell you one case where I went against the doctor's recommendation. My daughter used to run a bit funny and on her tip toes as she was growing up. At around 7 years old my daughter finally told me to look at her knees because she said they were crooked. Sure enough they were and so at her next physical we pointed it out to the doctor who also then realized the misalignment. We then took her to a specialist and he found that both legs were twisted out a bit with one being worse than the other. His recommendation was that he perform this operation he does all the time. He cuts the leg bone into at the ankle, reattaches it, lets it heals and teaches her to walk all over again through therapy. He said that since she is young it should heal fast and she should be back to normal walking within a year.
So whats a parent to do? The doctor said she should not get any worse, but would not get any better. If we had went along with him she would have perfect legs(minus a scar around the ankles). But what of all the complication that could come up with such a major surgery? Would we also be accused of being bad parents if she had died on the operation table due to some reaction to the meds and such?
We chose not to do it and our daughter is fine and has done many sports without letting this problem hinder her. Unless she points it out or someone is very critical of perfection, one would never know that her legs aren't aligned correctly.
My point is though that as parents we have to make so many decisions about our children. One wrong decision or even a right one that went wrong for so many reasons would kill most good parents. I just hate it when the media piles on and second guesses a decision that a parent made. And unless they truly find malice on the part of the parents, they should just back off and allow the parents to mourn their child's death.
