By Jim Hagarty
2015
I gobble down 12 pills a day and have done for years. They are tasked with producing certain outcomes and I guess they do what they’re designed for. I am still alive to take them so I guess they’re doing some good.
But lately, my body is in full rebellion. I gag when I try to take the big ones and if I don’t take them immediately after eating but try to ingest them between meals on an empty stomach, I get a bad case of acid reflux. Consequently, I have developed a phobia about taking them so I talked about it to my pharmacist about that today.
“Well we actually have something that will help you cope with all that,” she said, smiling. I started smiling too but stopped when she told me the remedy comes only in pill format. A pill to alleviate the effects of my other pills.The slight grin on the druggists face told me she saw the irony in her offer.
I began to feel I was in the nursery rhyme about the old lady who swallowed a fly, then a spider to catch the fly, a bird to catch the spider, a cat to catch the bird, a dog to catch the cat, etc.
As I recall, that didn’t end well at all for the poor old soul when she died after swallowing a horse.
