Police raid Dr. Murray's office. (AP/D Gluskoter)
Like so many Americans, Michael Jackson had trouble sleeping. So, it is alleged, his doctors gave him a powerful anesthetic to help him sleep, the drug that it is now believed to have killed him. Consequently, it is also reported, a number of Jackson’s doctors gave him an intravenous drip of propofol which, on the night he died, put him to sleep permanently.
I thought about this as I read about the police raid on the offices of Dr. Conrad Murray, the physician who gave Jackson his last dose of propofol and I pondered my own slumber difficulties. Last night, I woke up at 3 AM, the nerves in my eyes acting as though tiny strobe lights had been slipped under my eyelids. Hallucinogenic silhouettes pranced in my half-awake head, dark creatures stampeded through my bedroom and ominous characters confronted me, trying to intimidate me. (And, yes, I was intimidated.)
Turns out, it was the string beans, I discovered this morning. Yesterday I had unwittingly consumed vegetables cooked in some type of sauce that, I was told today, contained wheat or maltodextrin or some other additive that contains gluten. Unfortunately, for me, gluten is a neuro-toxin that plows through my brain like a drunken farmer swerving a tractor through a muddy field.
So my sleep was disrupted by my response to gluten. As an insomniac I (and Michael Jackson) have plenty of company – less than half of all older Americans get more than 7 hours sleep. I know that I need a solid 8 to 8 ½ hours to feel refreshed. Instead of hiring doctors to give me propofol, I try to workout every day and stay away from my neuro-toxin nemesis. Plus, I try not to eat close to bedtime.
Now if only Michael Jackson had figured out a safer way to go to sleep...
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Well unfortunately working out didn't solve MJ's sleeping problem, as dancing three to four hours a day should have been enough workout, don't you think?
I think some people are so keen talk crap and judge at every turn I agree he needed serious intervention but it needed to be safe and by people of integrity. Unfortunately his doctor let him down . MJ was desperate for regular and good quality sleep.
Unfortunately that wasn't very clear, sorry! I also felt that MJ had clear ideas about what would work for him and went for it, however the medical profession didn't display any professionalism as they didn't say NO and offer any real alternatives to solve his problems. Instead his doctor/s were more interested in the mega bucks that they could make out of a man that wanted to be able to deliver the show of the century. I know that he would have delivered the best. I saw him in Spain some years ago and he was fantastic and when I think about that concert any time at any place I always feel good and smile. He made many mistakes, however information has been distorted. Think about how our own friend might bend the truth? Then think about it on a worldwide level - who are we to know or to judge. He was just something else and bought pure joy. The truth will out we hope. xxx
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