That condition eventually ended, a great relief to me as I feared it being a permament condition. What caused it?
No doubt the abuse at the hospital - bad diet, months of immobility, two dozen or more drugs (most of them unnecessary)
simultaneously administered - was the cause.
What has not ended is the damage caused by the cocktail of psychotropic drugs. The lobotomizing effect makes it
diffiult to manage my affairs, as relatively uncomplicated as they are these days. Paying bills, maintaining my bank
accounts, and other business required the use of checklists and schecules and the discipline to use them daily, which
is the most difficult part. My brain doesn't do what I know it should do, is the best way I can describe it.
Eventually I had sufficient mental energy to look at the hospital records. One of my siblings (with a healthier mistrust
of the Medical Industry than I) requested my records the day after I was discharged. The records consist largely of
badly handwritten notes. But parts of them were printed from computer files and are quite legible. This is what they
were putting into me, without my knowledge or consent or that of my guardians (beyond the obligatory consent form) and
they did not know what drugs were being used:
insulin lispro 100 units/mL, multivits Ca, minerals/iron/fa, pantoprazle sodium, magnesium sulfate, quetapine fumarate 25mg,
L Acidophil/B Lactis/B :ongum;, haloperidol lactate, olanzapine, tramadol HCI, clonazepam 0.5mg, aspirin, ipratropium/albuterol sulfate NEP,
diltiazem HCI, atorvasttin calcium 20 mg, destrose gel 15g packet, dextrose 50% in water, glucagon, human recombinant, heparan Na 5000 unit/mL porcine,
epoetin flfa-epbx, acetaminophen 650 mg/20.3 mL, magnesium hydroxide/AI, hydroxide-UD, simethiocone, lactulose, guaifenesin/DPM 100/10-5 mL, zinc oxide 60 gm,
nystatin 15 gm PWD, ondansetron 4 mg oDT, oldansetron HCI/Pf 4mg/2mL, nitroglycerin, sennosides/docusate sodium, zinc sulfate-UD, ascorbic acid 500mg UD
I leave to the reader a judgment of the decision to administer thirty-five medications simultaneously, for months, every one of them unnecessary.
Five of them are most relevant. The others, coupled with the environmental conditions (tied to a bed, physically abused, substandard
sanitation and hygeine, emotional stress) certainly contributed to my near-invalid condition but the psychotropic drugs did the most
damage.
Quetiapine is used to treat the symptoms of schizophrenia.
Haloperidol is used to treat certain mental disorders such as schizophrenia.
Olanzapine is an atypical antipsychotic primarily used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Clonazepam is a medication used to prevent and treat seizures, panic disorder, anxiety disorders.
Tramadol is an opioid pain medication used to treat moderate to moderately severe pain.