Three times three cheers!

[tigerfort]

Hurray for science-based medicine!

Hurray for surgery!

Hurray most especially for dose-controlled industrially-produced artificial painkillers, which make life so much easier than it would be if we only had access to their unreliable and side-effect-rich natural brethren!

(Three times Hurray - Paracetamol! Ibuprofen! Codeine!)

Hurray for people working to improve the lives of those around them!

Hurray for free-at-point-of-delivery medicine, denied to no-one!

Hurray for the NHS!


(I spent much of yesterday in a hospital, and am now back home with everything pushed back into place, a couple of stitches to come out in a week or so, and lots and lots of lovely pills to munch while I recover. Currently, of course, I'm less mobile than I was while still waiting for the hernia repair, but that will change over the next couple of weeks, and soon I shall be walking normally again....)

Comments

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I am sorry to hear of the hospital trip, but very pleased to hear that you are recovering well.

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

Excellent about the success of the operation, though less about the affliction itself. I am due a hernia, according to a medical examination over ten years ago, but it doesn't seem to have struck me yet; I wait.

[kargicq.livejournal.com]

Yes, hurray! for living in a Western liberal democracy in the 21st century! For all its faults, I'd rather be alive here and now than pretty much anywhere else at any other time that I know of in any detail...

(and I hope that the recovery goes smoothly!)

[freya-9.livejournal.com]

Hope recovery is speedy, and aided by much snuggling of tigers :)
* hugs *