30 Days of Thanks: Day 5

Day 5: So thankful for access to medical care

Nearly 2 years ago I had an abscessed tooth.

If you have ever had one of those,

you are cringing right now in sympathetic pain.

It was without a doubt WAY worse than labor pain.

It did not end, there was no pain killer that would make it go away.

Drugs with narcotics... nope. Still there.

I wanted to take a hammer and whack the tooth out of my mouth.

I didn't...

but I wanted to.

It was (of course...) on a weekend 

when my parents (with the dental office) were out of town. 

Monday arrived, and a friend came and drove my chipmunk-cheeked self 

to the dentist where I have NEVER been so thankful 

for a syringe-wielding dentist in my LIFE.

Also recently, my hubby has had to work through an illness.

It's the typical coughing mess that's going around, 

but for him... it got worse and he needed a prescription and an inhaler 

so he could talk and breathe at the same time. 

It took 5 minutes to get an appointment, 4 minutes to drive to the office,

and 30 minutes later, he had 2 rx's in hand. 

We dropped them off at the pharmacy less than 3 miles away 

and had his medications shortly after that. 

When I consider that one of our sweet baby girls 

has latent malaria and I think about how

she must have suffered...

about how she witnessed the death of family members

who died from (likely) the same disease

that is completely preventable with cheap pills

and treatable with cheap antibiotics...

it makes me so angry and sad.

We are so blessed that we have the ability to complain

about our insurance costs, our treatment options, or the price of our co-pays.

And I, for one, am thankful to have these medical resources at my fingertips!