You were right Antonio Ontiveros! A few days ago, apropos of my letter to
Santa, you told me:
“We don’t have to reject advantages
but, when something hurts, you can just think of getting better.”
On Boxing Day an ear infection reminded me what pain is and what medicines
are useful for. As soon as the pharmaceutical gave me the medicine I rushed
home to gobble them down with the anxiety of an addict. I fell asleep, wrapped
in a hundred thousand blankets and made up sleep lost during the last night.
And when I woke up the
pain was gone. I would have kissed the feet of him who invented painkillers and
even the filthy overall of the first person who ground the prescription
ingredients in a mortar.
I wish to thank all
those who spend their hours searching for a remedy against pain. The greed of
big pharmaceutical companies often undermines their work. Yet business and
vocation are different things, even nowadays.
Copyright Luisa Fernández Baladrón
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