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Doesn’t matter. The story is the same over and over. Could be just about anybody.

I know a doc who says people bring in their medicine and it covers a 3 SQUARE FOOT area on the counter in his office. For one person! He usually takes them off of most of the stuff and they get better! We are not meant to have this many chemicals in us.

Oh, the amount of meds she is on is just insane. I've said more than once, "Are all of these necessary??" Depression? Sleeping pills? Itching pills? Twitchy leg pills? Blood pressure, diabetes, lungs....

What's really maddening is that the mom won't listen to any doctors or dieticians advice to stop living on soda, cookies, ice cream, and cornbread. I mean, on one hand I don't trust the medical professions dietary advice either, considering they've been trying to wean us off of protein and onto carbs for decades. But some of it does make sense.

It's hard to tell the poor woman "No," when she asks for something, she's so sweet and pitiful, and you figure she has no other pleasures in life, but.... it does seem to me that both mother and daughter are stuck in a mindset that is detrimental to them both. And I'm pretty sure tax-payers have shelled out about a million for this one lady over the last 2 years.

My other friend says no, that medicare and medicaid won't actually PAY $180,000, that the bill is inflated for insurance companies but the government gets a discount. I don't actually know much about it. In my family we don't really go to the doctor much. We're pretty healthy.

I do medical transcription for a hospital in Phoenix, and I see stories like this all the time. I recently transcribed a report where the patient was on 25 medications!!!!

I told my husband that if that was me, he should go ahead and just put me out of my misery.

Mrs. Prince of Space