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By looking at your @ jes...name I understand that you like to know the facts.

I don't remember what I wasn't allowed to say. It had to do with details of the case. I think there were 3 things that the attorneys stipulated could not be said to the jury. I just can't remember what they were. At the trial it was kind of strange. I was asked only a few introductory questions, and then I spent 15 or 20 minutes explaining what happened. My neurologist had recorded what he saw, and it was played for the jury. My therapist drove to Portland, where the trial was held, and made a statement.

The prescription was an antidepressant, and I was given some other psychotropic medication, something that used to be given to people in mental institutions, to sedate the difficult patients. I can't imagine what the pharmacist was thinking, prescribing such a medication. I would think that he knew what he was giving me, and one would think that he would have warned me about the risks associated with it.

Oh well. I survived. I read the entire information paperwork for a new medication, and I usually read it for meds I've been taking for years. Plus I check online for interactions every few months.

Live and learn.

Jim

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I'm with Lori, everyone should have another person who can double-check those medications. Unfortunately we come into this life alone and sometimes are unlucky enough not to have such a person when we need it. I hope this doesn't ever happen again to you. BTW Jim, we lived in Portland for 28 years until 2006. We met and married there but had to leave for a bunch of reasons unrelated to the location. I miss the Pacific NW and especially the Columbia Gorge where I used to love to hike. Best, Hank