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The motivation for my
weekly comments generally comes from something…
The
motivation for my weekly comments generally comes from something I see or
hear about during the previous five or six days. This week, I had planned on
writing about an article I recently ran across concerning the existence of
various Ectoparasites that happen to live on our bodies.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with this word, Ectoparasites are the
name used to describe the millions upon millions of tiny bugs, critters,
cooties that live on each of us. My article was going to be something snappy
about face mites, eyebrow bugs and other such nasty things we carry around
with us each and every day no matter how clean we think we are. If you don’t
believe me, just Google the words…’face mites’ and see what happens.
Anyway, somewhere I have placed the reference article in a really secure and
safe place where I could go back and look it over and then develop a story
about it. But as often happens, I have hidden it so well; I can’t find it
just now. Tell me you haven’t done this? So, I am at a loss to tell you
about the millions of dead-skin-eating microscopic creatures that are
crawling all over us as we go about our daily business. I know you are just
sitting on your chairs waiting in breathless anticipation for me to locate
this article and pass along this vital information to you.
Or, maybe not.
Sometimes, ignorance is truly bliss.
So, I suppose I will just have to resort to falling back on something that
bugs me (get it…bugs me?) and that is the amount of medical information we
get each night by just watching the news. I’m sure I have written on this
before, but it makes me thing that anyone younger than fifty probably isn’t
watching network news on a regular basis. All of the commercials just seems
to be directed at more, shall we say, mature audiences? We have commercials
for Depends, or some sort of adult diaper. I get the impression that there
are thousands of people walking around who are just content with going in
their pants whenever they feel like it. I’m not knocking people with bladder
control problems, so don’t start on me…but it does seem as if we are living
in a world where we need to take a pill or something for every thing under
the sun.
I was reading a book on the couch the other day and happened to hear a
commercial advertising ‘natural male enhancement’. I perked up thinking it
was from the post office and they were going to speed up my mail delivery or
come to my house earlier than they have been in the past several months.
I was wrong.
This wasn’t a government function, or at least I don’t think they have
gotten into that part of my life. But then you never know, do you?
One other thing about these drug ads’s on television. Have you noticed that
the side effects are often more serious than whatever it is they are trying
to cure?
So, you get this pill for your aging bones to replace your lost calcium.
But, in addition to this you MAY (note the word…MAY) suffer from hair loss,
loss of libido, diarrhea, fainting and dizzy spells, ringing in your ears,
cramps and skin discoloration and slurring of words. Gives you a warm and
fuzzy feeling, doesn’t it?
Don’t laugh, just because you are younger and don’t think any of this
applies to you. Age will catch up with you sooner or later. And for most of
us, it comes sooner rather than later. You find yourself unable to read the
labels because you don’t have your glasses and you can’t see well enough to
find your glasses so you can read the labels.
Reminds me of the time I used a tube of sports gel rather than Preparation
H.
You only do that once, then no matter what you will find your glasses and
carefully, I repeat…carefully read the label.
I know you will be happy to hear I am finally taking a vacation. I need a
rest.
Have a good week.
Read my book—“Manuel Muldoon”
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