Ode to First-Aid (A little humour)

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I went to the doctors yesterday

To see about a wound

I’d trodden on a rusty nail

Just as the week-end loomed

He sent me over to A and E

To have my anti-tet

When I arrived the place was shut

The concrete hadn’t set

“It’s over here” informed a nurse

She pointed to a pod

But as I turned and looked

I saw the queue and said “Oh God!”

Eventually I had my shot

Deep into my thigh

The frontiers of pain had moved

I thought the end was nigh

In my distress, a thought occurred

At the end of a tiring day

Of dealing with such accidents

Is this the only way?

My wife went into research mode

And Googled through the night

She found some old alternatives

Self-heal? Self-help? That’s right

She found in nature’s treasure trove

Amongst the website blurbs

Echinacea and Calendula

St.John’s and other herbs

So now, if we ever need first-aid

We look to nature first

She’s had the answers all along

Allopathy, do your worst!