The photo shows two prescriptions I bought in Thailand. The reason goes back nearly one year. After twenty seven years of living in Venice Florida I wanted to move, we have family in the mountains of NC. So we decided if we got the chance we would move, we did so we packed all our stuff and left Venice to our new home in NC. The house we moved to was fully furnished with a hot tub which is awesome because I sold ours in Venice because I didn’t want to move it. Once we got settled in I treated the hot tub with the chemicals the owner provided, well after a week or so I was getting dry skin, it was spotting and I thought maybe it was eczema or some other skin problem and bought some eczema cream and that was it. Over time it came and went and I didn’t want to go to a doctor that will just write me a prescription with a bunch of unwanted side effects and I’m a patient man so the cream was good enough for me. We we left for Thailand a few weeks ago it was nearly gone and I wasn’t even thinking about it, but when we got to our house in Bangkok and I started hitting the pool every day the dry spots came back and again it wasn’t that bad, but my wife wanted to do something about it and we stopped at a pharmacy near our house I showed the pharmacist my spots he and my wife talked for a bit and he gave me a blister pack with eight pills (a antibiotic of some sort) and a bottle of oil and told me to use both in the morning and in the evening. Both prescriptions cost about $3.50 America dollars hell I throw away more than that on lottery tickets so if it works great if it doesn’t no problem. after eight days it all cleared up. I still use the oil because there’s still about three quarters of a bottle left and I am back in the pool with no problems at all. I’m fairly certain that in America it would have cost way more than what I spent here and yes I know the cost of the plane ticket my point is in America I couldn’t walk into a CVS or Walgreens without a prescription from the doctor who’s visit would have cost a couple of hundred dollars, but here it’s very simple and affordable.


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