A huge personal THANK YOU

[pegkerr]

I would just like to take this opportunity to send my very heartfelt personal thank you to Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin. And to Howard Florey and Ernst Chan, who developed the procedure to purify it (the three of them shared the 1945 Nobel Prize for their discovery).

If I were living as recently as 65 years previously, I might have been in fear for Delia's life tonight. As it is, she will probably be well enough to go back to school in a couple of days. For most of the history of humanity, people would have looked upon a recovery that swift as a miracle.

We get complacent, with all the accomplishments of modern medicine, but I don't want to forget that it damn well is.

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[dichroic.livejournal.com]

The time I had a very bad UTI, it was a bit of a shock to think that I might have gone the way of Tycho Brahe in earlier centuries. ANd by that point I'd already been through several cases of strep and one staph infection that in retrospect could have carried me off as well. Yes, thankful.