On 12/21/2014 4:59 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> Cheryl wrote:
>>
>> I also think my late sister was bi-polar. Her daughter has already been
>> diagnosed and is on medication. But my sister had dramtic mood swings
>> and when she was "high" she'd call me late at night and just chatter on,
>> and then there were long periods of time that I wouldn't hear from her
>> at all, and she wouldn't answer phone calls or emails.
>
> Those symptoms sound a lot more like manic depressive than bi-polar.
>
>> After she passed,
>> it was said all of the pain meds she was on. We had to clean out her
>> house and she was on tramadol, percoset, morphine and valium in addition
>> to her chemo meds and anti-nausea meds. Other than the chemo meds, if
>> she was taking all of those at the same time, it's no wonder she fell
>> down the stairs, ending up rupturing her spleen which led to her death.
>> She seemed to be on a very serious "low" just before her accident.
>
> With those meds it was a serious addiction problem... look into who
> prescribed those meds... more likely she was obtaining them illegally
> on the street market,
(snippage)

Obtained illegally on the street? You cannot make such a claim,
Sheldon. There are plenty of doctors who are willing to write scripts
for narcotics for pain relief.

Jill