Many of you are aware that my wife (Linda) of 38 years, the mother of our five children, passed away back in December of 2014 after a sixteen month long battle with metastatic cancer.
As her caregiver throughout that time, we had many discussions regarding the treatments and medications the doctors were giving her (to prolong her life) that I personally would not have undergone due to the devastating side effects and toll they were taking on the quality of her remaining life suffering with the disease.
As her loving husband, I supported all of her decisions during those difficult days in her choices of continuing treatments and medications, because it was her life and her choice to make.
Almost two years ago this September, I had a massive (4 code blue) heart attack which I survived. Since that time I’ve changed my diet and have been on prescribed medications that heart patients normally take after the occurrence of a heart attack.
For several months now, I have been experiencing some adverse side effects from one of the drugs that is medically beneficial to heart disease patients in reducing and maintaining cholesterol levels that has (in my opinion) begun to reduce the quality of my daily life and I started to think… “This can’t be just my age!”
So I’ve ...
