EpiPen To The Rescue

Hi, my name is EpiPen. Sometimes people call me Eppy.
I started my life in a pharmaceutical manufacturing company
I come from a large family and there are millions of us all over the world.
We are not a close family because we all go to different places in different homes and then we wait for you to need us.
Many of us end up in hospitals and doctor’s offices and thousands of us are sitting in boxes waiting to be ordered.
It seems like people don’t needs us as much anymore, although I have heard a rumor that the price for our lifesaving serum has gone over the moon and a regular person has a hard time plunking down $400 for an EpiPen.
I am one of the lucky ones. I was sent out to a pharmacy and taken home by the woman who bought me.
She has been very kind. She’s never thrown me out, even though my expiration date came and went in 2014, she still thought I had some value and she held onto me.
We’ll, yesterday I paid her back when I saved her husband’s life.
I didn’t know if I could do it and when he slammed me into his leg, all I could do was hope that I still had enough medicine in the vial to help him.
He fell unconscious just as he injected the medicine.
The ambulance came and four men carried him out. They worked on him for fifteen minutes in the driveway and then they sped off to the hospital.
I didn’t know if I had saved his life.
When the woman came home from the hospital, she picked me up off the floor and and she said, “The ambulance drivers said that you saved his life. You did a good job and I’m never going to throw you away.”
Then she kissed me!
I can’t tell you how special I felt and even though I’m empty now, I fulfilled my life’s purpose and she saved my pretty container.
I know most of us EpiPens end up in the trashcan after our medicine is gone and I’m really proud to say that I’m standing on a shelf with all her pretty treasures.

September 24, 2023