Here's to hopin' for you, guy.
ShujinTribble
"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought,
wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that
happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort
in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."
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>From: jmhcustomart2004 <a_change_of_plans_at_yahoo.com>
>To: SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com
>Sent: Tue, February 22, 2011 3:08:51 AM
>Subject: [SkunkworksAMA] Re: For Jim: Heart drug may help prevent blindness
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>Thanks for the alert, man. I haven't been diabetic for 3 years and 3 months
>(since I had the double transplant of a pancreas and a kidney back in 2007), but
>I have been on Lipitor for several years now.
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>A yummy daily mix of 4mg Prograf, 1000mg Mycophenalate, 300mg Metoprolol, 325mg
>Aspirin, 10mg Amlodopine, 10mg Lipitor and 20mg Lasix. Just add milk for a
>crunchy breakfast treat! ;)
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>Vision is stable, though the eye doctor wants to do another vitrectomy on the
>left eye, since there's some traction on that retina due to scar tissue. The
>eye is fairly useless, though. Previous surgeries and a lens replacement
>resulted in paralyzing the pupil, so everything is blurry (what little I can see
>out of it that isn't concealed by scar tissue). She wants to replace the lens
>on the right eye (due to a cataract there), but I'm kinda holding off on that.
>If that pupil becomes paralyzed as well, then I'll be technically blind, so that
>would definitely not be cool with me.
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>I didn't know Lipitor was beneficial for diabetics' eyes, though. They had me
>on it for cholesterol (which was 116 in 2008).
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>--JMH
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>--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, "Coel" <coelacanth1938_at_...> wrote:
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>>http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2011/02/21/Heart-drug-may-help-prevent-blindness/UPI-54241298349065/
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Received on Tue Feb 22 2011 - 11:20:41 CST