Taking Grandma to Get Her Opiates

One unseasonably muggy day after last Christmas, I sat wide-eyed and blinking as my grandmother’s doctor spoke of conspiracy theories. Casket sales increasing, he said. “By thirty, maybe forty percent, since the vaccines came out.” I want to holler at his administrator, “Are you hearing this?” But I emit just a “hmm” and some hairline perspiration. Grandma, weighing in at 103 while wearing her sneakers and coat, just nodded and grinned, kneading her thighs with arthritic hands. We were here on a vital matter. This white-coat myth monger holds power. He prescribes opiates, the only class of medication that gives my grandma relief from constant pain in her back and legs. <a href="https://medium.com/the-narrative-arc/taking-grandma-to-get-her-opiates-4916ee90b07d">Website</a>