I saw Dr. Cabbage today in the clinic who assured me once again that my medications would be on board. She told me this same line of hogwash on October 15th, 10 days ago and I have missed meds since that date. That was of course right after I got released from the infirmary for nearly dying because I did not have my medications.
I also asked Dr. Cabbage for Vitamin E ointment for my bleeding Lupus sores on my chest and face. She told me that it is not part of any clinical study to prescribe that. Vitamin E, not some crazy, unique formulation from a spa on the French Riviera, just simple Vitamin E ointment. So I asked if I could just get Vitamins E and C to ingest and help with the inflammation and hopefully the suffering and pain and I am going through due to Fluvanna's finest allowing my medications to discontinue.
At Fluvanna—noted in the prison world to be a medical facility, mind you—vitamins are "non-formulary" and there is apparently no clinical data to support us getting them. Further, when I asked about probiotics for vaginal and digestive health for us as women, I was told that is also not supported by clinical data. We did a little research on this clinical data line we all keep getting and it turns out our acting-medical director Dr. Paul Targonski is a research physician. I have therefore solved the mystery for us all. The prisoners at this facility are obviously PART of the research Dr. Paul Targonski is doing to develop clinical data. They forgot that part of our sentencing.
I am in so much pain and it hurts to even take a shower. Everything hurts. I guess my day was not as bad as two other inmates who had body cavity searches done by people who were not doctors or qualified in any way to do so. They are both now bleeding and cramping as a result. You just can not make this stuff up.
--Jennifer Reba Edwards Emmi