A Little Prick

The phone rang last week and the voice on the other end introduced herself as the nurse from our doctor’s surgery.

She wanted to offer me a jab for pneumonia.

“Yet another jab to have every year?” I asked. “Along with the Covid and Flu ones?”

“No”, she said, “this is a single jab that should last your whole life”.

“My whole life? Well, that’s a once-in-a-lifetime offer!  I can’t turn that down!” I said.

And so, yesterday, I paid a quick visit to the surgery and nurse Patricia – for that was her name – injected me with some sort of super serum that is going to protect me for the rest of my life.

One down.

396 other maladies to go.

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