The Nightmare in the Mexican Gulf

In early 2009, it was the horrible things coming out about the banking sector, & I really needed a pleasant distraction, to relieve my growing distress over the mess.

Now the nightmare has worsened, with the BP oil rig explosion.....& I have very little in the way of stress relief. I was TimeWitch only on the Def Leppard message board, & I had heard a New Years' Eve talk of an interview with the lead singer, Joe Elliott, that was "coming soon". So as the months went by, I started a thread requesting a transcript of that interview; there were endless excuses & delays throughout 2009, then I heard it had been transcribed but was being edited. I eventually left the board altogether, after I had popped in to see how that "editing" was done. Turns out, the guy who has close contact with the band members was now belittling anyone actually expecting that interview, that it "never happened".

Then I posted a warning about a popular pain medicine, oxycontin; my Mom had been taking it for a month & it was finally the med that controlled the pain from rheumatoid arthritus, bone spurs, & a few other problems she had. BUT she started sweating profusely from her scalp-in the winter-& her hair was thinning, it would come out when she brushed her hair. There were no bald patches, it just evenly came out all over her scalp, & she said her scalp felt feverishly hot, & she was embarrassed by the profuse sweating running down her face in winter. She decided to go off oxycontin & with her doctor's advice try a different medicine. Mark Senff belittled my warning, saying he has male pattern balding, so maybe that was the problem with my Mom, among other things. Since he is friends with the band I consider it to be sanctioned by Def Leppard. I knew alot of people on that board were dealing with chronic pain conditions & had felt I was doing a good thing by mentioning this rare but real side-effect. I know Joe Elliott himself has a bad back & was wondering if he had been prescribed oxycontin.

There is a possibility that Lyrica-a pain medicine used for Fibromyalgia, & other painful conditions, CAN have an effect on eyesight. I wonder if this or some other pain med has been responsible for Joe's comments on needing glasses now, but I didn't post this info on defleppard.com because of the very hostile-& sanctioned-remarks of those in charge of that message board. I do know that some people on that board have fibromyalgia, or chronic fatique syndrome, but I was such a misfit there that I just don't want to endure belittling remarks when I was only trying to be helpful; I guess no good deed goes unpunished.

As far as I know, that interview Senff was claiming to have been editing-because of some kind of 'negativity' that "Joe" didn't want printed, never materialized.

And I still don't have something to take my mind off the horrible direction the world has taken. And Mark is still Sneff to me, arrogant idiot.