One Shot

This is the season for summer colds. My husband is getting over pneumonia and my office workers are coughing and sneezing. The people that went to doctors are taking medications. One pill three or four times a day for 10 days. I was doing the math. Thirty or forty pills times a million people with colds equals 30 or 40 million pills. No wonder the pharmaceutical companies are so rich. I started to think of the standard of years ago. The treatment was all the same. You got sick. Either you went to the doctor or if you had a fever the doctor came to your house after hours. He looked into your throat and felt your neck glands. He then took out a large needle filled with penicillin. No fancy drug. No ceclor or ampicillin or Zpac or levequin. Penicillin. You rolled over and he stuck the needle into your behind. We gritted our teeth as the serum flowed in. For two days after that our tush was sore. The amazing part was that we all recovered quickly. One shot cured us all. Not thirty or forty pills taken on a time schedule. Another example of life being easier and less complicated.