My one perfect arm...What easier way in could there be?
And I still do it...
It'll be alright Jason. This stuff that we give you is some kind of a miracle drug. Just been delivered from across the sea...far far away. Collected and saved just for you and your profusely bleeding brothers & sisters. It's nice isn't it. Look how clear the liquid is inside the pretty little glass bottles. Shimmering under the hospital lights like a minute ocean filled with the most precious & rare pearls. These will make you smile again...gone will be the days & nights where you cry like a baby whenever you move. Gone will be the times when you feel like stabbing yourself in the ankle to relieve some of the pain. And gone too are all those times when you wished you were dead.
You can keep the flip-off lids from the bottles and play with them...like draught pieces. Aren't they just so cool. And the little butterflies with their beautiful brightly coloured wings. And just look at the size of those syringes. When you have finished with them you can rinse them out and play in your garden with your Sisters and squirt water at them. The Summers just won't be the same anymore. You're such a lucky lucky boy.
Just keep filling yourself up with this stuff and all will be well again...I can assure you of that. Don't worry about running out, as the kind Men & Women from across the otherside of the ocean are all too willing to give you more of their beautiful blood. They even take blood from each other and use the same needles so all you little boys and girls don't run out of yours. And they get paid for it to...pocket money for sweets, cigarettes and various other things that make them feel wonderful while they are helping you. One of them was a thief...another a violent drug dealer. There was even a murderer and a rapist...all trying to help you...to save you...along with my fellow medical colleagues.
Repeat after me children..."We thank the medicoes"
Jason
'Ian Kevin Curtis R.I.P. Walk In Silence'
(C) JPT 2007.........1463.45 miles
10 comments:
Man, you just can't stop posting those unsettling infusion photos, eh? *cringe* :-)
I've never been a crook of the elbow shooter, myself... my tracks run all up and down the center of the back of my hands. Gives it kind of a stigmata feel. Not that I have any sort of messianic delusions or anything.
Once again, another great post. Here's the miracle medication that's going to save you, if it doesn't kill you first. When are we going to get wise.
I love the picture. great angle. I did cringe but my eyes stayed open.
I'm not sure I understand the post though.... what is the "clear liquid"? is it blood? from blood? is this stuff "collected" at prisons? I know it used to be common practice to pay volunteer donors for blood donations.... helped a lot of homeless people I'm sure.... except the supplies were tainted and proper testing was unknown (most likely how I got it) and so here I am. They don't do that anymore - at least in my town, but it's still imperfect I'm sure.
Is this what the post is about? Blood to save your life, can end your life? Repeat after me children...
We thank the medicoes. We thank the medicoes. We thank the medicoes.
This picture revokes my paranoia. Are you practising psyco sado-mazo, man?
Kisses
Tea
Jae,
If you don't mind, I'll jump in and field Ample's question: the clear liquid was derived from blood products until the advent of recombinant clotting factor in the early 90's. Sadly, only those of us in the wealthy, developed world (the west, Japan and Australia, primarily) have recombinant as an option. Everybody else gets the older, possibly contaminated plasma derived products, if they get any clotting factor concentrate at all!
While recombinant is nice in that we can take it without too much worry about future infections, and it's saved the under-20 crowd, for older guys like Jae and me, it's a bit like closing the barn doors now that the horses have all run off and been made into glue.
To answer the other part of your question, emphatically yes... the blood used in the manufacture of the product we used to take was collected in prisons, impoverished neighborhoods and third world countries. Big pharma likes their bottom line, and investors like their dividends. I figure they'll get theirs eventually, though, as their hands (and those of the regulatory agencies who were supposed to protect us) are soaked in the blood of our fallen brothers and sisters.
Moreover, those companies are now being investigated (and I believe there are international lawsuits pending) for dumping the old dirty factor they couldn't sell here in countries that can't afford the luxury of clean blood products.
I don't mean to sound angry (many of us have made peace with our situation, myself included)... I'm simply trying to shed some light on just how ugly the whole mess was.
To borrow a sign-off from one of my fave talk radio hosts...
Keep it lit!
Chris
PS. Jae, sorry for the long comment... probably should have done a post on my own blog.
wow jae!
how are the veins holding up??
big hugs
lewis
xx
Chris - Thank you for explaining the clear liquid part and for sending me that link. Can you post that link here for others to read. It was VERY enlightening and sent me through the ROOF with rage towards the greedy pharma bastards... YACK! how can they look themselves in the mirror, pieces of crap, total charlatans!! Where's the trust now?
Here's the link Ample mentioned:
Wikipedia: Contaminated blood products
Jae, I promise I'll quit hogging your blog space! ;-)
Chris
Sorry Chris;) I can't believe it made you cringe...as my 14yr old Nephew said to me tonight...'It's only sticking a bit of metal in your vein'.
He too has severe Haemophilia A and treats himself.
Ample...looks as if Chris has answered for me. I thought it was common knowledge regarding all the contaminated blood fiasco.
As you say Ample...the trust has gone but what choice do the likes of Chris, Ros & I have...we have to inject the stuff wether we want to or not.
And although there will be more needles and blood in my posts...I can safely say that there won't be any for a good few weeks yet;)
Lewis...my veins are holding up pretty well thanks:) I got nice big juicy ones and I don't feel a thing either:)
Thanks for the link Chris...and Chris...whats mine is yours dude:)
Jaex
Hey Jaex,
Likewise, brother! And don't sweat giving me the oogies. The pix are gorgeous. Maybe I'll do one of my own soon. ;-)
Chris
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