in my sickness stupor

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

On Friday Josh and I went to Meijer to pick up a few things even though we were both feeling sick. We had to laugh when we realized we were buying Kleenex, Airborne, Breathe Right strips, cough drops, Theraflu Vapor patches, and chicken noodle soup.

I had never tried the vapor patches before but I liked VapoRub so I figured it worked the same. By the time we got home I was so exhausted. I couldn't breathe through my nose at all so I decided to try out the patch. I put one on before bed and it seemed to help a bit that night. Saturday night after my shot of Nyquil I pulled another patch out and put it on my chest.

When I woke up Sunday morning the spot where I had put the patch was throbbing a bit. I peeled the patch off and went on with my day. I realized Monday that I had a huge red rash where that patch was. Last night while trying not to itch Josh pulled out the box to read if there were any instructions.

I hear him in the other room say "Do not apply directly to the skin". I think I replied "whatever, that doesn't make any sense". Uh yeah, it says it on the box and the actual package for each patch! Hmm...didn't so much catch that. In my defense I was not thinking clearly due to my cold but also why would you not stick one of those things on your skin? So the picture on the front of the box has a person wearing a t-shirt and the patch on top of that. But it's probably a common mistake, right?

My cold is much better except now I'm itching like crazy...I just can't win!

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posted by kimberly, 7:51 AM