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To: Shoot1st who wrote (311)	6/18/2000 11:27:00 AM
From: Janice Shell	Respond to of 1576

She was taking Percoden for the sinus pain.... That may have been why she thought she was feeling better. Percodan is strong stuff, and could mask a lot of symptoms that should have been paid attention to. If you feel bad enough to take Percodan, you should realize that you're sick enough to see a doctor. I'm not being judgmental here. I'd probably have done the same thing. What's happened to Edwarda is, I'm afraid, to some extent the consequence of living alone. I suppose that all of us who do are aware of the problem. If you live with family, and you get sick, past a certain point they'll take charge. If they're worried enough, they'll make you see a doctor whether you want to or not. People who live alone are generally independent types, and tend to downplay problems, or to joke about them. You figure: well, yeah, I feel really lousy, but I've felt lousy other times, and nothing really bad's happened yet... Once last year when I had the flu I felt bad enough to wonder, sometime in the middle of the night, if maybe I'd made a dangerous mistake; if maybe I should have called someone or done something. Of course by then I felt too awful to bother. In my case, I was significantly better by the next day, but I think you see the psychology that's at work here. In addition, if she were bleeding internally, she may not have realized it, and might have taken aspirin for the headache, which would have exacerbated the bleeding. I don't know Edwarda as well as many of you do, and so I'm not sure how she'd have handled the situation. I know when I'm sick, I open the medicine closet and try whatever's there. Someone should take a look at what she's got at home, to see whether what she was taking might have made her illness worse, or whether she may have combined drugs that don't mix.

To: Shoot1st who wrote (311)	6/18/2000 11:36:00 AM
From: Janice Shell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576

She was taking Percoden for the sinus pain.... That might account for why she thought she was feeling better on the Thursday. Percodan is strong stuff, and could mask symptoms. If you're sick enough to feel you need Percodan, you should see a doctor. I'm not being judgmental; I'd probably do the same thing. I previously wrote a long message about how those of us who live alone tend not to take illnesses seriously, and how we tend to indulge in, perhaps, too much self-medication, but when I submitted it, SI ate it, and for some reason hitting the "back" key didn't work. I did mean to add, though, that she might have been taking aspirin for her headache. If she were bleeding internally and didn't realize it, that would have exacerbated the problem considerably. Someone should check to see what other drugs she may have been using. I know it's stupid, but when I'm sick I open the medicine cabinet and take pretty much anything that's on hand, in the hope that it'll work.