Lost Fight

Just like other years, birds are singing in the trees covered with flowers, and narcissus are growing in the green grass of the backyard, but I can't help that this year isn't like another, and I don't feel like the usual spring flowing through my blood. It took time before I noticed why: its a year I lost my bosom friend, and evidently I didn't reject the pain yet. In spite of the age difference (17), we could handle with each other a real unconditional friendship. I don't remember if we quarreled about something. She is the kind of friend you can never replace.
About two years ago she suffered from back pain, and her walking was every time very painful. Her toubib diagnosed spinal stenosis, and he doesn't let her take time for reflection about a surgical intervention. So an orthopedist took the job to operate on her and placed stalks and pins. From the beginning, she recovered very badly, and when she returned home, she couldn't come above the pain. Her last Christmas was horrible. Nothing could stop her pain, even the patches with morphine. Unhelpfully, she returned to her surgeon, who decided to reopen 3 months after the first intervention and drop away all the material he placed. But here started the final battle. She couldn't recover, being too much weakened. It seems afterwards she got that famous clinical MRSA (multiple resistant Staphylococcus aureus), against whom they don't have any remedy. From that moment, I saw the very active and frightful woman she was giving up the battle. In her very last moments I wasn't allowed to greet her, so sick she was. I can't drop away from her mind, though we have all deserted her.
Where is the time between the two world wars? The antibiotics and vaccinations started making miracles and saving so many lives. Some diseases were eradicated totally in our countries with their efficacy. But then came the time when doctors prescribed unconsequentially those types of medicines in such a manner that on one side they had to force the prescriptions (more and more resistant pathogens) and on the other side they caused an imbalance between the pathogens themselves (the most resistant could develop without the concurrence of other pathogens).
And today we are evidently losing the whole battle; viruses like Sida, Chikungunya, H5N1 (bird influenza), and so on. We are disarmed momentarily and perhaps for a long time. Again we are in the desert and hope their is on earth somewhere a good working brain who finds the solution.