Ode to our Old, Part II

I thought I'd share another story of my grandfather's—the late, great Burke Casper. Here we go, a short one. Hope you enjoy it.

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After delivery in our clinic, we kept the mothers about 12 hours and then sent them home in the local ambulance, furnished by the funeral home. We hired a practical nurse to stay with them during this period. She was friendly, warm, and capable, and came any hour, day or night. One night her husband came in. "Doc," he said, "I've lost my courage." This was the term used to mean impotence. I put him on shots of B-12 twice a week. Since impotence is mostly psychological, almost any treatment helps, but injections do best because they are a more dramatic treatment.

He made me promise not to tell his wife that he'd lost his courage, so I told her that he was a little run down and needed some vitamins. I smiled inside when she later told me, "Those vitamins sure are powerful; he wants to fool around all the time."
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