(This is W.E.’s story) ” I was born in September of 1950. I have diabetes, heart disease, and COPD. The first week I was at San Carlos an LVN (who shouldn’t be doing injections anyway), overdosed me by 10 cc’s of insulin. Instead of 4 cc of insulin, she gave me 14! As soon as I got back to my bunk I passed out. It was so serious I spent 5 days in the hospital.

My diabetes was very well controlled on the outside, but here it’s a crapshoot. I was taking inhalation therapy for my COPD, but here all they allowed was an emergency inhaler.

I came really close to going blind thanks to the morons at medical. The prison Optometrist tried really hard to get me to see Dr. Heller MD for an offsite appointment. Shortly after seeing the optometrist, I did get an appointment with Dr. Heller. He said I had monocular degeneration, cataracts, and bleeding in both eyes. I had been going to medical complaining about almost total blindness in my left eye. Dr. Heller immediately gave me two shots to stop bleeding and fluid loss. He said he’d tell the prison that it was imperative that I come back every 4 weeks for more shots. Of course, weeks went by without seeing Dr. Heller again. Bless that optometrist though, when I told him I hadn’t been seen, he got on the phone and made the appointment with Dr. Heller himself.

I have had visions all my life, and I had one last night that I died in prison days from being released. I hope this vision doesn’t come true.”