Being sick

There was a time, when you were sick, you went to the doctor...and got an antibiotic.

And you usually felt better in 3-7 days.

Then they taught us that antibiotics didn't fix everything (which is why it still took 7 days sometimes) and paying to see a doctor and not even getting a prescription to validate the fact of your sickness, was, well...painful.

So now days when you get sick, you wait. Wait for the potential cold to pass...7-10 days. Then you think, well maybe just a few more. Surely I will feel better...tomorrow. At some point you have to concede that perhaps a doctor's visit is in your best interest...cause you feel like crap. And have for 2 and 1/2 weeks.

So I, um, you, leave work early to get checked out and render this illness defeated! So what started out as a cold? then seemed more like pharyngitis when you lost your voice and maybe just allergies, since the face was itching turns out to be a sinus infection, ear infection and urinary tract infection...because maybe you waited just a little longer than you should have. How are you supposed to know?

Thank the pharmaceutical company's greedy little pea picking hearts for Z-pak. Three infections for the price of one antibiotic and a couple of days instead of another week to 10.

Maybe I'll feel better by the weekend.