The Medical Marijuana Law in Vermont should include HERPES

Posted July 1, 2011

THE MEDICAL MARIJUANA LAW IN VERMONT
SHOULD BE AMENDED TO INCLUDE
HERPES.

Ms. Cris Ericson explains why the Vermont
Medical Marijuana Law should be amended
to include people who suffer with HERPES:

I went to the gynecologist at the women's clinic
in a Vermont town on June 29, 2011.

I had received a note that the previous Gyn
left the clinic.

I am sitting in the examination room waiting.
There is the slightest quick knock on the
exam door and a very young man in a
white exam coat enters and says,
"Hi! I'm Dr. (X), are you ready for
your torture today?"

I am not amused.

We have a long argument.
I am not feeling well enough to have
a pap smear or breast exam.
He states that "his rules" are that
he will not give me a re-fill of the
herpes suppressant medicine I have
been taking for years unless
I submit to him giving me a
pap smear and breast exam.

I explain to him that if I have to suffer
going without the herpes suppressant
medicine that the medicine instructions
in fine print state that the herpes will
come back worse than ever before.

He ups his ante and makes more
demands, now he wants a colorectomy
butt exam or whatever its called and a
mamogram.

I tell him I am opposed to mamograms
because of the radiation.

We argue about that. I forget to tell
him that when I had the last mamogram,
I broke out with herpes blisters on my breasts.

Somewhere in the arguments he agreed
that herpes can break out anywhere in the
body, but he called it herpes zosters.

He's wrong. I know. I've had all kinds of
tests on open sores and they were herpes.

Why hasn't he read online computer medical
records before seeing me? Aren't doctors
supposed to take 2 minutes and 2 seconds
to do that?

I explain to him that I have had, in the past,
untreated herpes blisters that turned to
open sores and then the open sores
turned green with infection.

He stated that he never met me before
and that he has no evidence from
seeing me now that I need a herpes suppressant
prescription.

This is total bull, he should have spent
five minutes looking at online computer
medical records of me for the past
years, going back to 1995, all in Vermont.

I told him I had a blood test for herpes in
1999 in Vermont at a Hospital in Vermont
l and I would gladly take
another one.
When herpes shows up in a blood test,
you need to keep taking the suppressant
medicine.

I told him that if I end up with blisters and then
open sores that turn infected close to my spine
which I have had before, that I could end up
with herpes encephalitis.

He said that was a problem for a back doctor,
not a gynecologist.

I said that every time a doctor tells me to go
to a different doctor, and treatment is
interrupted, that I suffer too much.

A general practitioner tells me to go to
a Gyn, a Gyn tells me to see a
Dermatologist for my back,
and it goes round and round.
I feel that refusing to refill
a prescription that I have had from this
"Women's"
clinic for two years is a threat to me of
manslaughter (because it can turn into
herpes encephalitis and death.)

WHO WANTS TO GO TO A "WOMEN'S"
CLINIC WHERE THERE IS A YOUNG MAN
YOU HAVE NEVER MET BEFORE
IN A ROOM WITH NO NURSE
THREATENING YOU WITH EXTORTION
TELLING YOU HE WON'T GIVE YOU
A PRESCRIPTION REFILL YOU HAVE
HAD FROM THAT CLINIC FOR TWO YEARS
UNLESS YOU ALLOW HIM TO
MAN HANDLE YOUR BREASTS,
SHOVE SOMETHING UP YOUR VAGINA
AND SHOVE SOMETHING ELSE UP
YOUR RECTUM?

He said he was going to mark in the records
that my appointment had been cancelled today.

Isn't that outright fraudulently
altering medicaid and medicare records;
and medicaid and medicare are federal records?

The young doctor, trained in Mexico, tells me
he refuses to have me as a patient.

The State of Vermont
takes Medicaid and Medicare dollars and puts
them into their new socialized medicine plan
called, "Green Mountain Care". "Green Mountain
Care" has three levels of care, platinum care,
gold care and silver care, then for the common
poor folks like me, just Green Mountain Care.
So, if you read the new socialized medicine law,
you will see about page 10, that there are three
levels of care, and it is quite clear that the State
of Vermont is taking money from the poor,
the Medicaid money, to provide healthcare
for the middle class and wealthy citizens
of Vermont. In order to do this, they appear
to be letting go of regular doctors who
previously provided healthcare for the poor,
and the state appears to be substituting them
with medical doctors trained very cheaply,
allegedly, in Mexico.

I receive Medicaid and Medicare, and Vermont
has 100% socialized medicine;
can the doctor
refuse treatment?

This is one of the reasons I have been on Social Security
Disability, because I can't get a doctor to give
me consistent medical treatment in Vermont.

Every time I am taken off of herpes medicine because
a doctor leaves a clinic, or for any reason I need a
new doctor, I have moved a few times to different
areas of Vermont, then they say that I can't prove
I have herpes (despite the blood test on record
at a major hospital in Vermont and despite medical
records on computer in Vermont), so I go without
the suppressant medicine and then I get so sick
with blisters and open sores that I cannot function
and I cannot hold down a job.

It is also important to note that the Vermont Board
of Medical Practice wrongfully took away one doctor's
license and disrupted my medical treatment that way
in 2009.

I complained to the D.O.J. that I believed the actions
of the Vermont Board of Medical Practice were
instigated by a former Vermont
official was running against me for political office,
and that I believed that I was being
deprived of medication in order to thwart and disrupt
my political campaign.

The D.O.J. did not respond.

Am I being continually attacked because I am
a perennial political candidate in favor of expanding
the Vermont medical marijuana law to include
Herpes, and in favor of making medical marijuana
legal under federal law?

CRIS ERICSON, candidate for United States Senator
for Vermont 2012
UNITED STATES MARIJUANA PARTY
http://USMJP.com