One Pharmacist's View

Heard someone carrying on about how long this winter has been. Not only longer but colder than normal. Something called an Arctic bomb flew in on the jet winds and settled over our area last week extending winter yet another little while.

The Flu “ain’t” finished with us yet. It’s usually winding down by March but not this year. About 36 million Americans have had experience with this flu so far. Not all came out OK on this in spite of a vaccine that helped a lot with this season’s bug.

Kim Jong-Un boarded his train for Hanoi Saturday with what seemed to be half of the city of Pyongyang going with him. Kim and President Trump are to have another big meeting this week and Kim likes his train.

Not very many nuggets of good news that I could find this week. For instance, Notre Dame University just covered up all Murals of Christopher Columbus because Native American’s say that they discovered America--not Christopher. And utter nonsense continues to rule in New York City.

We used to talk about something called the “news cycle.” This is supposed to be the amount of time a particular topic or story continues to be aired before it cycles out.

Most people survive their first M.I., if they’re not too old. Chances slim out a bit as old age sneaks in. I listened close whenever I thought I could overhear the health care people talk of my condition in the hospital. Or at least when I thought they were talking about me.

It’s a dynamic time of the year in a special spot in the universe called America. And what makes our country so special anyway? That’s not easy to figure out. At least not for me. I remember a special time for me in the fall of 1956 when I flew home from a place called Japan.