I'm a fan of MJ's genius, but when it comes to common sense, who does this? Who spends their night hooked up to an IV receiving medication to help you sleep when it really is a drug used to put you under for surgery. Isn't this bizarre to anyone else?
Well,
bizarre pretty much summed up MJ in a nutshell
well before CM entered the scene. I can kind of see how using Propofal to induce "sleep"
would have seemed logical to MJ. He was so insulated from the rest of the world and had so much money (actually, he was considerably in debt at the time, but it didn't seem to cramp his style much), and star power that he probably created his own reality. Just look at his years at Neverland. Like many stars, he considered himself to be outside the rules of average people, and most of the time he was never called to task over any of it; if he was, he simply cut that person(s) out of his life with the flick of a finger.
For whatever reason, he desperately needed sleep. Propofal acts quickly and leaves the system quickly. While it wouldn't be normal sleep, it would allow his body to relax significantly for X number of hours and he would awaken as soon as it it stopped entering his system. On the surface of it, if you had the means to do it and the IMMENSE pressure of having to perform almost every day, it seems almost logical. Almost. One less thing to have to deal with. You don't even need to REALLY sleep; you can just pay someone to do it FOR you. For someone in show business, it could be rationalized by lumping it into the category of "
maintaining my instrument", like getting a manicure, facial and massage.
That would normally be the point where the rest of us, rationalizing the logic of using Propofal as a sleep aid, would shake our heads to rid ourselves of the silly notion that it could possibly be that simple. Most people would consider the downsides to weigh more heavily than the upsides, i.e., lots of needles, collapsed veins, chafing nasal canulas, condom catheters, the fact that enough anesthesia to perform major abdominal surgery might be a tad bit overkill (so to speak), the occasional need for CPR (and the resulting cracked ribs), and the higher-than-usual possibility of
DEATH, not to mention that sharp stinging sensation.
All things considered, while the sleep-eating thing is really annoying, I'll take Ambien over Proprofal any day.
