I come from a family of nine kids.\u00a0 Doctor Key delivered all of us, except one, and that was because of the distance between Texas and Nevada, especially in the 60\u2019s.\u00a0 When I was little, my older brothers told me I was not born but hatched.\u00a0 If that was true, it was still Doctor Key who did the hatching.<\/p>\n
One of the outstanding traits of Doctor Key, was his use of the miracle called \u201cMilk of Magnesia\u201d.\u00a0 When any of us kids got sick with a bellyache, Doctor Key would prescribe a \u201cbig ol\u2019 dose of Milk of Magnesia\u201d.\u00a0 It cleaned us out before the bugs could multiple and take over our bodies and perhaps even kill us dead.\u00a0 So whenever Mom brought us in to see him, the first thing he ask, \u201cDid you give him a big ol\u2019 dose of Milk of Magnesia?\u201d\u00a0 And Mom would proudly say, \u201cYep.\u201d\u00a0 I often thought, if Mom ever took me into Doctor Key\u2019s office for a broken arm, the first thing he would probably say is, \u201cDid you give him a big ol\u2019 dose of Milk of Magnesia? \u2018\u00a0 And Mom would\u2019ve say, \u201cYep.\u201d<\/p>\n
The stuff has a heavy chalk taste that we abhorred, so Mom gave us crackers to eat with it. \u00a0In looking back at those times, I now realize the crackers really did nothing but fool us into thinking they actually made the horrible stuff go down easier.\u00a0 Today, it has been converted into pills.\u00a0 Kids these days don\u2019t know how lucky they are.<\/p>\n
So, as I grew and raised a few kids, I too used the wisdom of Doctor Key.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t until my teenage daughter had a bellyache, did I realize there may be something different about this.\u00a0 I gave her a big ol\u2019 dose of Milk of Magnesia, and when that didn\u2019t get rid of her bellyache, I gave her another.\u00a0 Still the miracle did not work, so I took her into her doctor, since Doctor Key had long retired.\u00a0 When he asked what the problem was, I explained how I dutifully gave her a big ol\u2019 dose of Milk of Magnesia, and when that didn\u2019t help, I gave her another.\u00a0 Since the bellyache didn\u2019t go away, it had to be something sinister.\u00a0 The doctor had a peculiar look in his eyes and said, \u201cWhy did you do that for?\u201d\u00a0 It was at that point, the Little Guy in the back of my mind told me something was not right.\u00a0 I explained, that\u2019s what Doctor Key said to do.\u00a0 He asked, \u201cWho\u2019s Doctor Key?\u201d\u00a0 I had to mention that he was an old family doctor, and added that I was named after him, thinking that may quell the situation some.<\/p>\n
He did some poking and prodding and took a spit sample or something, and said she is already getting better and will be okay.\u00a0 Then he told me to take her home and buy her some fresh yogurt to replace the good bacteria that I flushed out of her system.\u00a0 \u201cAnd don\u2019t do that again!\u201d he yelled.<\/p>\n
Man!\u00a0 I felt bad\u2026<\/p>\n
Well, I still have not learned my lesson completely.\u00a0 A couple of weeks ago, I had a bellyache that I couldn\u2019t get rid of, so I took some laxative pills my wife had, to flush the bugs out.\u00a0 Still didn\u2019t do too good, so I went to the Med Unit and told them I have a sinister bug in me.\u00a0 \u2026 and I told them I tried to flush it out with a laxative.<\/p>\n
There was that same, why did you do that for?, <\/em>look.\u00a0 \u201cWell, when I was a little boy, my family doctor used to prescribe it to me when I was\u2026 \u201c and I let my voice trail off to a mumble.\u00a0 Well, bottom line is, she said, \u201cYou\u2019re getting okay now, but don\u2019t do that again!\u201d \u00a0\u00a0Wow!\u00a0 I won\u2019t do that again.<\/p>\n It\u2019s amazing how medicine has changed over the years.\u00a0 Mom would always put a drop of cod-liver oil on our tongues every night before bed.\u00a0 So, recently I got to thinking about that and decided to find out what Mom was really giving us.\u00a0 Wikipedia states: \u201cCod liver oil was traditionally manufactured by filling a wooden barrel with fresh cod livers and seawater and allowing the mixture to ferment for up to a year before removing the oil. \u00a0Modern cod liver oil is made by cooking the whole cod body tissues of fatty fish during the manufacture of fish meal.\u201d\u00a0 Now the question here is:\u00a0 Were we getting the traditional stuff, or the modern stuff?\u00a0 I tell you right now, when I was a little kid, the word \u201cmodern\u201d wasn\u2019t invented yet.\u00a0 You figure it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I come from a family of nine kids.\u00a0 Doctor Key delivered all of us, except one, and that was because …<\/p>\n