Friday Sept. 24, 2010

Went garage sale shopping with Lory this morning.  She did very well by finding a microwave for $1.00 and a couple of boxes of craft supplies for $4.00.   Candle making is in her future.  Candle gifts are in my future.  Yeah! 

I found a 1 foot fake Christmas tree for 50 cents in preparation for the holiday season.   We are big spenders.  Then we had lunch with Susan at Subway.  Both my kids for lunch, what a treat.

Radiation treatment # 10 was fast, nothing new there. 

Continuation of yesterday’s ramble - 

When my kids had chicken pox the pediatrician prescribed something to help with the itch.  I think it was just bendryl 20 mg.  This was in the 1970’s. 

I had some left over and hadn’t thrown it out.

A few months later a friend of mine was visiting with her little girl.  The little girl got stung by hornets in the backyard. 

The hornets nest was in the ground and my husband had tried to burn them out by pouring gasoline down their hole and setting it on fire.  That caused a lot of black smoke which brought the fire department who put out the fire. 

So the hornets were still there and that little girl had never been stung before and was allergic to the sting.   Her eyelids puffed up like balloons and she was having trouble even crying.

I was afraid to give her a whole capsule of the left over meds, she was really small.  So I opened a capsule and dumped half the powder into a teaspoon and covered it with applesauce.  She spit it out so I used the other half of the powder and more applesauce and she swallowed it down that time.

While I was doing that her Mother was calling the doctor’s office.  We rushed her to their office and they administrated 60 mg of the same stuff in the capsule.  They said we had saved her life by giving her the part of a capsule of meds.  WOW 

And they say never to keep old prescriptions and never give them to someone they weren’t prescribed for.  We had to tell them about taking the capsule apart as it didn’t come in 10 mg amounts.

That little girl went through a series of shots to prevent the bee sting allergy and they worked.  The next time she got stung was years later when she was in a parade as a Brownie (junior Girl Scout).  She refused to get out of the parade and her poor Mother had to run alongside the parade to make sure she was okay.

It is amazing what parents do to take care of their children, even break rules.

Later….