Why, “Don’t Count On It”

So why did I name my blog “Don’t Count On It?”

The things that I thought I could count on, like being married forever, always being a size 5, having a house with a fire place, and having a functioning brain have somehow gotten moved from the “count on it” column to the “say what?” column.  In fact, as a result of the afore mentioned “count on its” I have now disposed of the “count on it” column forever.

Life throws you lemons and guess what? They hit the wall and smash all over it! I dare you to make lemonaid with them! Go ahead!

Yes. A few lemons hit the wall. But who would guess that my brain would be one of them. I never would have imagined that I’d suffer damage from ingesting a round of cipro and then a year later two (yes, two) doses of Avelox. Both are fluoroquinolones from which I suffered adverse reactions. In effect they fried my nervous system.  Chronic nerve pain is one thing but it also took from me the thing I prized the most. My brain. Yes, my brain.  My cognition is impaired. My focus is scrambled. My short term memory is gone.  I was a writer. Yup. Now I can’t function without my dictionary and my book of grammar rules. And if that’s not bad enough, I have to read the same rule or dictionary meaning over and over and over again until it’s meaning sinks in. It makes writing a long and tedious task.  But the challenge is on, my friends! I’m scraping the lemon off the wall.

So here’s my blog. It’s thoughts from a scrambled brain. I’m thinking that that could be interesting .  Or maybe not. But we’ll see.

In the mean time, go to www.fqresearch.org and educate yourself on the indiscriminate use of the very powerful fluoroquinolone antibiotics. There are thousands of us injured with no recourse. Some of us are permanently disabled. All of us are impaired in one or many ways. 

When your doctor hands you a script for one of these antibiotics (cipro, levaquin, avelox, floxin)  ask him for something else. Tell him not to take out the “Big Gun” unless your life depended on it.

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