| "Dear Hopefully-Smarter-After-Reading-This-People:
I am a 50-year old, retired veterinarian that suffers from a chronic spine disease which I have had since 1993. I had to retire and, after many surgeries, ahve slipped into a lifestyle that is very regimented with medications and a strict way of living, exercising, eating, diet, etc.
Doctors always make the worst patients. I am always questioning my doctors and wanting to know the long-term effects of what I am taking for pain management, etc. Two weeks ago, I was just sick of the money our family was spending on that "drink mix" we all know and thought to myself, gee, I'll just make Kool-Aid and put Splenda in it!
Now, I take a lot of medication and we live in Central Florida where it is hot, humid, and unbearable right now. My life is about as big as a dime, if you know what I mean. Very, very stable and controlled, always the same--day after day.
I took my first drink of the Splenda Kool-Aid this past Wednesday and I am home from the hospital and one this website today, Monday, to tell you all--my stomach felt like I had a thousand lesions in it, unbearable pain in my organs, and it felt like I was bleeding inside.
They could not figure out on Saturday night, in the E.R., what was going on. Finally, one of them asked if I had added anything new to my diet. I told them about Splenda. THEY PACKED ME UP AND SENT ME HOME.
I felt like I was dying on Saturday and now my stomach is slowly healing. You do the math!
Thanks for your time. Be careful out there."
Thank you Animal Doc for sharing your story with our visitors.
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