SC - Health, medicines, etc.

[Laura C. Minnick]

I have been lurking around this subject but now speaking my two cents.  I 
have learned to carry a small list of what meds I take and who my insurance 
co. is and my docs # in my pouch at all times usually taped to my inhailer.  
As an asthematic I find it very difficult to answer these questions when I 
am mid-episode (should I have one).  It has been well recieved the couple of 
times I needed it.
olwen


>From: "Philippa Alderton" <phlip at morganco.net>
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: Re: SC - Health, medicines, etc.
>Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:41:54 -0400
>
>Lainie, I think you're misunderstanding what Ras means here.
>
>Controlling one's physical problems with medications simply means taking
>your medication as prescribed, in order that you resemble a person in good
>health. This is not limitted to medications either- proper diet and 
>exercise
>are included. For example, if you are a diabetic, you can be diet and
>exerdise controlled, diet and pill and exercise controlled, or injectable,
>diet and exercise controlled. Along with this, it is often suggested that
>the diabetic keep something handy to eat in case of a sudden mis-balance in
>their blood sugar. This is controlling their disease- not curing it, but
>controlling it.
>
>By the same token, an epileptic might be on meds, and as part of 
>controlling
>their seizures, avoid certain stresses and situations which might trigger
>them. I saw one lady at Pennsic who was going a step further, and had
>brought her Agrican Grey to Pennsic. This bird had been trained to warn her
>when she was likely to have a seizure, so she could deal with it.
>
>Where we as Chirurgeons get angry and frustrated at people is when they are
>allergic to beestings, for example, and left their epi-pen (injectable
>epinephrine, used to prevent the histamine reaction from occurring) back at
>camp, or they don't follow their medical instructions and expect us to pick
>up the pieces, or where someone comes to an event, and they're too badly
>sick or injured to attend to their own treatment, and expect us to act as
>nursing or rehab staff- most of us just aren't trained in that capacity.
>
>So relax, Lainie, you're doing fine, and Ras wasn't slamming you- you were
>just misunderstanding each other a bit.
>
>Phlip
>
>Nolo disputare, volo somniare et contendere, et iterum somniare.
>
>phlip at morganco.net
>
>Philippa Farrour
>Caer Frig
>Southeastern Ohio
>
>"All things are poisons.  It is simply the dose that distinguishes between 
>a
>poison and a remedy." -Paracelsus
>
>"Oats -- a grain which in England sustains the horses, and in
>Scotland, the men." -- Johnson
>
>"It was pleasant to me to find that 'oats,' the 'food of horses,' were
>so much used as the food of the people in Johnson's own town." --
>Boswell
>
>"And where will you find such horses, and such men?" -- Anonymous
>
>
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