Antibiotics

Today, as I was giving my daughter her last doze of the antibiotics she had been taking twice a day for the last 10 days, praising her for not complaining too much about it (on some days) trashing the left overs of the sticky white-orange smelling liquid to the sink and saying "told you it would be over in no time, now you can forget about the whole thing, you are officially healthy" I smiled and my daughter cheered to herself and went back to play with her brother. I caught myself staring at the empty pharmacy bottle, wondering how it could be like being in that very same situation, only holding an Insulin vial, telling the same encouraging words to my daughter but instead of referring to a respiratory bacterial infection I would be referring to her diabetes.