Four hours later, Herbert Reed will swallow another 15 mg of morphine to cut the pain clenching every part of his body. He will do it twice more before the day is done.
Since he left a bombed-out train depot in Iraq, his gums bleed. There is more blood in his urine, and still more in his stool. Bright light hurts his eyes. A tumor has been removed from his thyroid. Rashes erupt everywhere, itching so badly they seem to live inside his skin. Migraines cleave his skull. His joints ache, grating like door hinges in need of oil.
There is something massively wrong with Herbert Reed, though no one is sure what it is. He believes he knows the cause, but he cannot convince anyone caring for him that the military's new favorite weapon has made him terrifyingly sick."
Okay, that's enough. I should have stopped after Viagra, so mea culpa, but included all of the prescriptive ingestions to provide a better understanding of the story.
Or the storyteller. For a man of Reed's age, the amount and type of medications...including Viagra, of course...are hardly noteworthy. The DU scare has been around ever since the Loons first heard of it's use, and DU poisoning is their new China Syndrome.
The controversy isn't going away anytime soon, and more research IS necessary to determine why blacks and hispanics suffer disproportionately after exposure to depleted uranium. I have personally never met with a Gulf War veteran who is or was sickened thusly so cannot speak firsthand of the malady, but red flags spring into being whenever lefties decry the use of ANYTHING.
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