Wednesday, December 14, 2022

QUESTION FOR A RETINA DOCTOR: A POEM WRITTEN DECEMBER 11, 2022

I asked the doctor why he stuck that needle in my eye!

“It’s plain to see!” he told me, “and here’s the reason why!”

“You have an eye condition: macular degeneration.”

“Why do I have this?” I replied.  “What is the explanation?”  

No pause or hesitation for that doctor’s quick reply:

Because you are on Prolia, and that’s the reason why!” 

“Oh my gosh” I thought at once, “Now I will have to choose!”  

“My vision or my backbone; Oh, which one would I lose?”

At last I made the awful choice: my bones would have to go.

I didn’t get my Prolia shot, the rest, I guess, you know!

Soon after, in a flood of pain, three vertebrae were shot!

Life as I knew it ended, right there on the spot!

No more driving, no more travel, just a lot of pain!

My active life cut with a knife — and sent right down the drain!

Not long afterwards I learned I’d got bad information. 

And why that doctor said those words?  I have no explanation.

All too late I learned that this condition of the eyes,  

Is from osteoporosis, NOT Prolia; but I was too late wise!

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