Revisiting Past Problems
Woman in the Middle | May 2, 2015I just cleaned out our medicine and bandage supplies. I have to do that every once in a while to get rid of everything that has expired. I really thought I had done a through cleaning recently, but based on how many medicines we had that had expired, I guess it was longer ago than I thought.
It was funny going through everything and wondering “Why do we have that???” And then remembering….
There was the box of very large band aids. That was for the time, not too long after we moved into this house, that Hubby and Youngest Daughter decided to go walking in the hills near our new home. One of Youngest’s feet slid on the gravel and she went down, scraping the entire front of one shin. I happened to go outside and look up the street just as they were coming home and I could see the blood running down her leg. The only thing that kept me from screaming or crying or something eqyally dramatic was the fact that Youngest was on her feet and walking. Obviously it couldn’t be too bad if she was walking. We needed LOTS of those big band aids to cover that boo boo! She got to go off to college with a big red scar all down the front of her leg. I am happy to report that it has faded now, just in time for college graduation, but not the memory!
There was also an amazing amount of Musinex hiding in the cupboard. I really dislike the name of that medicine, but it does work when you need something like that. That was from the ILLNESS of 2013. I put that in capitals because lower case letters just don’t do it justice. I was off work most of a week and finally went to the doctor when Youngest commented, when I was talking to her on the phone, that I seemed very ill. You may remember, I started a post on this blog with the words “I am dying” during that unpleasant time. I had to take some steroids to calm the whole mess down before I started getting better. I was happy to throw out all the expired Musinex and, hopefully, the memories of that horrible ILLNESS.
The pack of ginger gum for motion sickness comes with happier memories. I bought that to take on our northern European cruise in 2013. Happily, I never needed a single piece of it because it was smooth sailing all the way.
Don’t forget to clean out your medicine and bandage supplies every onece in a while. Then you, too, can take an injury and illness walk down memory lane!
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