When you have an aging parent to look after, you can never guess, though you would ever be grateful to it, where which help could come how. The family pharmacist is one such, and huge, help.
An elderly person requires all sorts of medicines, for lifetime diseases, such as diabetes and blood pressure, for local aches to itches. You need proleptic drugs, you need pain killers, the ointments and oils, the tonics and vitamin tablets. And how can you forget the medical instruments beginning with the digital thermometer, the b.p. machine, the diabetes strips, the works. The family pharmacist would procur anything for her within a day tops.
That was our relationship with our pharmacist, M/S Rathod Chemists. Pritam Bhai would come without a grumble, and help me lift her up, whenever she had a small little fall. Why, as usual, I had gotten the monthly medicines from the Rathod shop exactly six unhappy months ago. How was I to know that they would of no use the very next day?
Getting Aai's death certificate from Dr. Khare was his last reaching out to her. She,too, would always enquire after his well being, after his daughter. Why, she had insisted on a wedding gift to him. There was a warm bond between them both.
Hence, today, on the occasion of the World Pharmacist Day, let me take this opportunity and thank him for being helpful always. Thanks, indeed!
Pratima@ patient help!
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