Anne1 relies on the experts.
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Well, no, because they’re the experts. So the doctors in emerg – or not in emerge, in ICU – prescribed the medication and told me what the pills were for. And there was one pill that they wanted to give me which my husband had been on, and it caused a tremendous personality change in him. And I just flat-out said I will not take that pill because we will not be married. If I take that pill and I turned into the person that he turned into when he was on it, we would kill each other. So they said, ‘Okay, fine, you don’t have to take that pill,’ and they found another alternate for me to take. And other than that, I rely on the experts. Why would I say anything? If they’re going to give me their time and their best, the best try to make my life as good as it could be, I’m certainly not going to argue with them about that. So, no, I accept whatever they say.
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