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Vioxx Killed My Husband
I'm looking for other victims of vioxx! I want to wake up America to the dangers we are exposed to by all the Pharmaceutical Companies. Merck might have well shot my husband in the head, they managed to destroy his brain. If people do not become pro-active in their health, more people will be murdered for profit! My new book will be about the vioxx cover up; anyone wanting to tell their story is welcome to tell it.
Phylo
Date: 2/18/2005 1:24:57 AM ( 19 y ) ... viewed 4489 times VIOXX & MURDER
I THINK THE BEST WAY I CAN INTRODUCE MYSELF TO THE READERS, IS TO SHOW THEM A COPY OF A LETTER I WROTE IN NOVEMBER, 2004
To Whom It May Concern,
Since I'm not exactly sure who should be reading this e-mail I decided it probably should be read by any and all administrative and all Corporate Executive Officers that deal with the production and sales of the drug VIOXX. I especially want those in charge of stocks and stockholders to pass this on because it will affect them! Merck is a huge corporation, so I must make sure that copies of this letter will reach all parties concerned.
Copies will be distributed to the Justice Department, to the Senate Select Committee. My Senators and major Newspapers throughout the country and all television news organizations. ABC, NBC, CBS (including 60 minutes) will have access to this letter. The FDA is just as responsible as Merck and it will be noted. This action is necessary to get the truth out to physicians, pharmacies, and patients. There is already litigation ongoing with this story; a story the entire country should hear; perhaps the entire western world.For those who has gone through this I tell my story. My story is only ONE IN THOUSANDS AND IT NEEDS ATTENTION NOW. I OFFER MY VOICE TO ALL THOSE WHO CAN'T.
September 14th 2004, almost 18 months to the day that my husband started taking vioxx, he suffered a massive stroke. Medically called an acute cerebral vascular accident (CVA) His right side was paralyzed, he couldn't talk or swallow. Because he couldn't swallow he could aspirate and get pneumonia from
his own saliva or he could choke to death. At first he was feed with a nasal gastric tube, later it was necessary to operate and put a feeding tube into his stomach. He had to be suctioned several times a day to prevent choking and pneumonia.
For thirty-two days I sat at his bedside night and day. I only went home three times for a short time during those thirty-two days. The stroke had occluded his right carotid artery 100%. Surgery was not a possibility if they tried his artery would have exploded like a volcano.
After about a week he started to run very high fevers; sometimes over 105 degrees. No infections were found. That left two possibilities: one, the part of his brain that controlled his body temperature was damaged by the stroke, or he developed non bacterial meningitis (a side effect of vioxx). He was placed on an ice mattress for days to keep the fevers from causing more damage. Now it was noted that he was blind in his right eye and he was less responsive every day. It was almost impossible to rouse him. When his eyes were open, he could no longer follow any commands. He just stared blankly!
On the very same day that the news broke that Merck was removing Vioxx, it was confirmed that my husband had developed a blood clot in his right leg. I was watching the news and sitting bedside my dying husband when I heard Peter Jennings (ABC) make the announcement. "VioXX has been pulled because it has shown to cause heart attacks, strokes and blood clots."
I thought I was having a nightmare. I knew he was going to die and already signed a DNR order. His brain was damaged permanently. The neurologist told me he continued to have infarctions (blood clots) in the blood vessels in his brain and they couldn't stop them. He started having seizures and they became continuos for the last ten days of his life.
His days allowed by the HMO (another rotten insurance) were running out and he was transferred to the skilled nursing section of the hospital. The HMO would only allow him to stay there for eight to ten days. I was told he could die anytime or he could linger months. I had no means to take care of him being disabled myself; and could not afford 24/7 help that he needed.
He could do nothing for himself. He would have choked, and no one would know. If he had to go to a nursing home, he could not call for help or even ring for a nurse. He would have been full of bedsores and lying in his feces. He was like a baby and the damn HMO didn't care. The sicker he got, the less he could receive. What a wonderful country we live in! The pharmaceutical companies and the HMO's make all the decisions for the doctors and hospitals.
In this case, Merck put him into the hospital with their VIOXX and now he was running out of time to receive care. Merck knew for four years and did nothing and They cannot deny it anymore. The proof is out for all to see. Thousands have paid with their lives while Merck and their investor's got billions of dollars. Merck murdered my husbnd. He was a good kind man, a father and a grandfather.
I intend to go farther than litigation. Everyone who has been hurt by Vioxx will be invited to join me is this fight and march on Washington as soon as we are gathered together. It doesn't matter how long it takes, we will never see our loved ones again. If I have to spend the rest of my life exposing these greedy murderer's; then so be it! My husband and all the others who died are not statistics. They were flesh and blood human beings who were deliberately killed for profit.
Mrs Phyllis Jankowiak
corinnebegga@aol.com
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