My grandmother was a very wise woman.
We believed everything she said to us, for example: a cold takes three days to come, three days to stay and three days to go. That was a mouthful!
However, I am now on my 11th day since it struck and I’m still waiting for it to depart. Perhaps the medicine I’m taking is prolonging its stay, or perhaps the way to count the days is different now than it was when grandma was with us. No matter, I’m still coughing up a storm, my lungs are tired, my throat is red, my nose is in constant motion and my eyes are bulging.
The medical assistant (?) said I was negative for all those recently named maladies of the throat/ears/nose. Nothing came out positive, so I was given a prescription for sore throat and a regular cold. By the way, I have not seen a doctor for the last seven years. What gives?
After 7 days of taking the prescription, my symptoms worsened, my throat emitted some guttural sounds heard only by my pillow and with fever raging every day, I thought I was being invaded by a alien force who spoke in an ancient language through my ears, directly to my brain, causing a raucous only I could hear.
Left my bed several times at night to find a better sleeping position somewhere else in the house, to no avail. Sitting up on the recliner only caused me to stay up all night and lying down on the mattress created the internal raucous increase to a level never heard before.
Another visit to the clinic and the receptionist denied me a face-to-face since I had only been seen about 7 days prior. She was loud enough for the medical assistant to hear my voice complaining of the lack of improvement in my health, so she sent me back home to wait for the pharmacy to deliver a new prescription.
Because the pharmacy doesn’t deliver out of town to the farmland, I needed someone else to pick up the prescription at the pharmacy in town, so on MLK day, our daughter was great enough to do so.
She brought the prescription home, along with another prescription to enhance the bone density of my skeleton. It was recommended I start taking this new drug in case of a fall and to avoid breaking the bones left in my body. After reading the side effects of this new drug, I put it back in the box and will return it to the pharmacy on my next trip to town.
The side effects will require a new prescription for stomach ulcers, another one for sleep deprivation, another one for bleeding of the stomach and yet another drug for dizziness. Do you think that in my right mind I’m taking this new drug in case of a fall? You got something else coming to you, as I prefer to have a splint on my arm, leg or whatever, instead of another drug.
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