This might seem an odd title for an entry, but today I am profoundly thankful for drugs and the medical profession. Yep, even those big bad pharmaceutical companies. I went to the doctor yesterday and they believe the reason I’ve had such debilitating pain in my right leg the past three weeks is disc related. So while I’m waiting my turn for the orthopedic specialist, they gave me some muscle relaxants. Now I hate to take that kind of stuff, but I also hate being in pain all day and all night. So I am very thankful.
I truly can’t imagine what it was like to live in the previous centuries with very few medical options available to you. Women dying regularly in childbirth, children not making it to their first birthday, people dying of diseases we don’t even think about any longer, people having surgery in unsanitary locations and with minimal medication (if at all)… For all its faults, there are profound reasons to be thankful to be living in the twenty-first century.
Well, that’s about all the brain cells I have for now. I’m just way too relaxed to write much more. But I do thank God for giving man the ability to discover these things and the ways that we are able to benefit in our quality of life.
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