I was eager to hear a self-professed "Archdruid" lecture us about our myths. Here's Greer's line, quoted in the previous day's post:
"Most of the people who are currently dependent upon drugs for survival are going to die."
One observation about this will suffice: Every person on The Oil Drum who responded to my excoriation of this comment DEFENDED Greer.
Now go home and tell your Granny she's dead.
About two years ago my partner was making the bed and he went blind in one eye. In his typically Stoic, New-England way, he went about his business for the day, as normal, after calling his Primary Care Physician and his Ophthalmologist, of course. He did barn chores--slopped the pigs, milked the cow, hayed the horse, collected eggs--and helped cook meals. I even caught him in his workshop using a hammer. The bastard hammers better with one eye than I do with two.
The verdict from the Ophth (I'm not spelling it out again): probable broken blood vessel. The vitreous humour was clouded through with blood, and it would probably clear naturally in two, three, four weeks. Maybe five. Maybe. Probably. Was it related to his diabetes? Maybe. Hard to tell. Once the eye cleared, they would gaze inside to see what was the matter.
This was one of many of our own, personal "long emergencies" involving his diabetes, which struck him as a teenager for no reason, no reason whatsoever. We have had to endure such incidents as hypoglycemic attacks at 3 a. m. when I had to keep his airway patent and get him to swallow some Coca-Cola one gulp at a time. He has been extremely lucky: At 57, he is thin as a post, has no other health issues, and, as his PCP likes to say, his "liver and onions" are fine.
The eye cleared up, gradually. Meanwhile, he continued to use his hammer in spite of my screaming. He lived hand-to-mouth in an unheated Maine farmhouse during the recession of the 1970s.
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