My wife and I have been under the weather for quite some time now. She is recovering from pneumonia, and I have had a terrible cough and flu-like cold (I did test negative for the flu) -- and each night I experience regularly returning paroxysms, marked by successive cold and hot sweating fits. Fun.
Of course, we're both heavily medicated, which is fine as long as no doctor or nurse comes at me with some sort of shot! I hate needles -- a trait I share in common with Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request).
Of course, we're both heavily medicated, which is fine as long as no doctor or nurse comes at me with some sort of shot! I hate needles -- a trait I share in common with Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request).
| Besides being America's greatest poet, Dickinson was also an inventor and scientist, and he developed many different medicines. His dream was to create a cure-all that would bring about the end of shots. Perhaps the closest he came to achieving that dream was when he developed "The Hero In You" tablets, a treatment guaranteed to give "prompt relief to most ailments." Alas, the active ingredient was pure heroin, so this medicine is now banned in all 50 states and in most countries around the world. So who knows, maybe I'll just have to man-up if, in fact, a shot of some sort is needed to get me over whatever this is I'm suffering through! I will try to be brave -- braver than those referenced in Dickinson's poem "Not Sickness stains the Brave" (below on the left). His poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen a poem with the same opening line (below on the right). To read more about Dickinson's various remedies and treatments, click HERE. |  |
| By Emmett Lee Dickinson: Not Sickness stains the Brave, Nor fever Hot, Nor Medicine to come, But an approaching Shot – | By Emily Dickinson: Not Sickness stains the Brave, Nor any Dart, Nor Doubt of Scene to come, But an adjourning Heart – |
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