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Letter posted with links at Timism.com\Timism\BBNfo\VetAdmn\2014\DrPrice140313.htm

Dr. Price,

Thank you for your letter of Mar 07, 2014. My only concern is medication for my narcolepsy. I am not interested, at this time, in any assessment of my overall health condition since I know the following to be true.

1. I am grossly overweight having put on 20 pounds in the last two months of frustration at not being able to stay awake--see log of 140312's narcolepsy.
2. I am probably diabetic.
3. I have high blood pressure which I am not interested in treating.
4. I, not surprisingly, have an enlarge lower chamber of my heart--ventricular hypertrophy (1.3cm) with aortic calcification (Source: Bons Secours Mobil Heart unit).

Thus, there is no need to waste your or my time on these issues. In essence, I am increasingly prone to being tired of living in a world of self-destructive igknowance. I don't want to be chained to an ever larger plastic pill organizer due to complications of chronic use of past lifesaving pills that alter my metabolism. I prefer a sudden death to a pill-assisted debilitating decline.

The only thing I care about is thinking and learning which is why I would like medication for narcolepsy.

All things considered, and given how I had an anti-narcoleptic prescription for almost a decade from the V.A., it seems as though my healthcare has been and is being held hostage for some hidden agenda which I neither understand nor appreciate. Would this non-prescribing V.A. modus operandi be the same if it were warfarin or nitroglycerin? Is one's mental health considered less important than non-mental health?

All things considered, it would be nice of you per the previous multi-year treatment of my narcolepsy if you wrote a script for the pharamacy whereby Friday afternoon or Saturday morning (March 15/16) I could pick up the medication. Is that asking too much? Then you could schedule an appointment to discuss any matters that you think necessary not covered in the above listing.

Caveat based on the past: I will not ever go to the blood clinic for blood being drawn. I have offered to pay for additional services in the E.R. or psych ward to draw my blood. I won't risk being demeaned, disrespected or insulted again by those phlebotomists who were the origin of this downward staircase of travails.

The ball is in your court. I hope you can return a good serve.

Sincerely,

Robert S. Barnett (6096)

email: demcapu@comcast.net
answering machine: 804 233-7541

P.S. Rather than talk about my health, I rather discuss my explanation about the origin of PTSD, in particular its exacerbation by the military's free distribution of stimulants to frontline combat troops--see PTSD-Price14Mar14.