Home health care

       Bottom line, don't get sick.

            But we all know it does happen, like we all get sick sometime, and we should plan for it, too.

            Now having been a Marine, I know I am supposed to tough it out, but that is silly when I think about it.  In other words, if one gets hurt, like an abrasion, just clean it as best you can with what you have, and do it right away, like within an hour or so, and protect it, and let the body heal itself. Our bodies are pretty neat in that regards. I call these situations preventive medicine.

            There was a time less than a century ago and before antibiotics where I read a tennis pro had a blister pop, and it got infected, and the infection killed him. Now with antibiotics, one can probably treat the same infection OK, but the point of this post is don't let it get to that state, including the expense of treatment and extra time lost if the treatment is successful. Now there are other old fashioned ways to treat these infections (like powdered sulfur or 3% hydrogen peroxide or taking zinc), but I think antibiotics work pretty good if one can use them.  I call these situations corrective medicine, and we all know they do happen.

            Of course, in hard times situations, then access to routine antibiotics may be limited, and then preventive medicine becomes a bigger deal. And of course, the more exotic diseases and special antibiotics to try treat them are something else, too. So some may die, as sad as that might be for those affected.

            So in a silly sort of way, feed your Family as best you can to keep them healthy, have them clean and protect their boo boos if and when they get them, and in so doing I think you are helping the preventive medicine part of home health care.

            And of course for those affected by older relatives, old people do and will die, as will you when you get older, too.  But that is another discussion.

            Last, I believe all I am saying is probably already routine for many Moms and Dads in their way of taking care of their Family, and good on 'em for doing it.