Time: Thu Nov 07 16:34:05 1996
To: minutemn@pcl.net (Mike Kemp)
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: Medically Incompetent
Cc: 
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Dear Mike,

What can I do for you?

Please be specific.

"Ask and you shall receive."
         The King of Kings
         (Rex Regorum)

Adveniat Regnum Tuum.

/s/ Paul Mitchell



At 06:11 PM 11/7/96 -0800, you wrote:
>Mike Kemp writes:
>> 
>>         I am an insulin dependent diabetic, arthritic, and suffer from
>> gran mal seizures. For some twenty five years I
>> have provided my own counsel on medical matters. Only in the
>> most minimal degree have I sought the services of a licensed
>> physician, only for the prescriptions for phenobarbital and
>> Dilantin (phenytoin). Occasionally I have had to subject myself to
>> an examination (pay for an office visit) to get the medication, but
>> I have not sought nor accepted their advice.
>>         Yesterday, I was declared criminally incompetent to
>> mangage my medical affairs. I suppose that, considering I was my
>> own physician, and offered my services to NO one else, I was
>> convicted of administering an unauthorized medicine- to myself..
>> There was no complaint from the patient, but the state has acted
>> on its own volition.
>>         This being the case, I fear that the state is taking on an
>> awesome and difficult burden. A ten percent overmedication with
>> one of my medicines, a product of the earth and available over the
>> counter (insulin), and I would be dead in a matter of some hours,
>> of insulin shock (hypoglycemia) were I not to have access to other
>> products of the earth- carbohydrate foods.
>>         If I am undermedicated by ten percent, I will drift into
>> diabetic acidosis and be seriously damaged or die in a few weeks.
>> My eyes, kidneys, and my extremeties will be at risk, as a
>> minimum.
>>         Likewise, food, carbohydrates particularly, are a problem. In
>> my insulin dependent diabetic condition, food is not LIKE
>> medicine, it IS medicine. I do not operate on a fixed schedule, and
>> much of my food intake is on an *as-needed, when needed* basis.
>> Should I fail to eat enough carbohydrates at the proper time, I will
>> die or be brain damaged by hypoglycemia (low blood sugar),
>> immediately. If I am fed too much carbohydrate, I will drift into
>> diabetic acidosis, with damage to eyes, kidneys, extremeties, etc.
>>         I have little or no knowledge of how to prevent seizures
>> without the use of cannabis. :)  Dilantin has serious side effects,
>> including rashes, headaches, neurological disturbances, and
>> elevated blood sugar. It is synthetic, and is damaging to kidneys
>> and the liver. Use in excess of need is obviously hazardous,  and
>> the process of deterining othe proper amount is often discovered
>> by trial and error- error resulting in gran mal seizures. Even levels
>> needed to control severe seizures are toxic.
>>         Phenobarbital is another synthetic, a hypnotic, and highly
>> addictive. It is toxic to liver and kidneys. Proper dosage is again a
>> matter of trial and error. Excess dosage results in severe physical
>> dependency, a *drugged* condition, and severe problems,
>> including seizures, should the drug be removed.
>>         I cannot in good conscience lend my opinion to the state in
>> managing my illnesses. After all, they have declared me
>> criminally incompetent, and are soon to sentence me. If they jail
>> me, see the above discussion. If they don't, they will most likely
>> put me on supervised probation (piss tests). If I am in charge of
>> my medication, I am not going, on my own volition, expense, and
>> peril, to tamper with the regimen which prevents my seizures and
>> maintains a proper blood sugar.
>>         Their piss tests will show this. Having failed a piss test,
>> probation would be revoked, and I would go to jail. See the above
>> discussion. Hardball, anyone? Suggestions, anyone?
>> 
>> In Liberty,
>> Mike Kemp
>
>
      


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