By Ralph SeeramThere is an old saying, drugs “will either kill you or cure you”. I never paid much attention to that statement until recently when I discovered that there is some truth in that saying. By drugs I mean medicine and not illegal drugs. Growing up, our medicine was made up of only three items, castor oil, Epsom salts and senna pods. Those three were believed to be the “cure all “ for all ailments, or so the old folks believed.None however killed anyone and the only side effects were constant visits to the toilet, or in the old days, the ‘latrine’.Growing up,Air Max 97 Womens, I hardly recalled going to the doctor, even when I was well into my twenties’. The old folks had a “bush medicine” for every illness; you had a cough there was a “bush medicine”, same for fever, pains,Cheap Jerseys From China, cuts, sores and the list can go on.On my recent visit to New Amsterdam I observed one vendor still selling “bush medicine”. Going to the doctor was a last resort. Today it’s in reverse, especially here in North America where it’s all Western medicine, by that I means it is all prescription drugs.Doctors here are given indirect incentives by big drug companies to promote or prescribe medications. If you are to believe the drug companies,NFL Jerseys Store, herbal medicine and over the counter drugs are bad for you; only the prescription drugs are good.They however try to hide the fact that some of these medications have serious side effects that can either kill you or create another illness, as in the case of the love of my life,Cheap Jerseys For Sale, Chelsea, which I will explain later.Some years ago I was rushed to the emergency room about 4 am with abdominal pains. The first question the doctor asked me was what medication I was taking. After I disclosed the medication he said that was the cause of my pain. Turns out I had inflamed pancreas and spent two weeks in the hospital. Recently I went to my doctor for a persistent dry cough which the regular over the counter drugs failed to cure. As expected he prescribed some medications. One was an inhaler, the other a suspension.Remember I went for a cure for my cough, which was mainly a dry itchy throat. Glancing through the side effects, for the inhaler I learnt that it can cause among other ailments upper respiratory tract infection, throat irritation, hoarseness and voice changes, thrush in the mouth,NFL Jerseys China, headache,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, nausea and vomiting and yes, cough. The other medicine was just as worse. Suffice to say it can cause a heart attack.On my return from Guyana I was anxious to see my love, the love of my life Chelsea. On lifting her I found she was lighter than usual. I proceeded to give her the usual massage, which she actually demands. During the massage I discovered she had a lump on her shoulder.Alarmed, I took her to the vet for an examination. He informed me it was possibly a cancerous tumor and that he will have to perform a surgery as early as possible. I soon discovered that surgery on a cat or any other animal for that matter is no different from that for human. The surgery bill was not different either. You had to pay for the surgery, the anesthesia, medicines, and other incidental expenses.On the appointed day for the surgery, as she was going into the operation room I could not help but shed some tears, knowing that it may be the last time I might see her alive. While it was not yet positive it was cancer, an x-ray had to be done to ascertain if it had spread to her lungs and other parts of the body(another bill) then the tumor had to be sent to a lab to determined what type of tumor( another bill).Well she had her surgery and spent the rest of the day in recovery, while I waited anxiously for a phone call on the operation. When the call came, the voice at the other end “I have good news and bad news”. “Give me the bad news first”, I said. The bad news was they suspect it was cancerous, the good news, they caught the tumour early.Later the lab reports confirmed that Chelsea had a cancerous tumor. She is recovering fine and will need a constant check to ensure it does not return. I ask the vet how she could develop cancer when I always ensured she got her regular check up and shots.What he told me made me very angry at drug companies. It turns out the shot she was receiving to prevent leukemia also had a side effect that caused cancer. Yes the medication that was supposed to prevent one form of cancer created another form of cancer. How ironic.Today Chelsea is back to her usual self demanding to be pampered, sleeps on the forbidden sofas and creates all sort of mischief. Someone ask