Today’s Thought “Medical Ingenuity” G. Ward

“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.” Romans 8:18

It was a weekday evening and our Sweet Grandmother had to accompany us to this aesthetically sterile medical facility so that my 3 siblings and I would receive inoculation against rubella or measles. This daunting task assumed by our Grandmother never considered being embarrassed as our arrival to this clinic of sorts witnessed this cold, grey room, awaiting what was the equivalent of getting an arm or leg amputated without anesthesia. What truly made it worse was the other children in the background with profuse weeping and shrieks in agony.  We were all little children 16 months apart to date; so we didn’t have a mature sibling to model what it meant to embrace internal anxiety without external collapse. As the “King Family” (The King Family Show, series first aired on ABC from January 1965 to January 1966) or the “Osmond’s” were celebrated for their excellent harmony through singing for that era, our shrieks were equally harmonious. Our Sweet Grandmother couldn’t comfort us. One by one we kicked and screamed to the back to see this huge gun with serum (it appeared like a modern day nail gun). The needle was huge. The alcohol pat, it hurt; then the needle. Who would do this to a child?

Such may be the agonizing of the electoral process of 2016, but like our being inoculated, it will soon pass.

Happy Wednesday!