Who remembers being doctored by...Archived Message
Posted by whatusay on July 12, 2011, 6:06 pm
...your grandma with Mercurochrome or Merthiolate?
OMG
A mere glimpse of that little brown glass bottle coming out of the medicine cabinet after a recently skinned knee would evoke shreaks and screams from my little sister that would send chills down a grown man's back.
I remember holding my breath, stiffening my upper lip in anticipation, no dread, of that reddish orange liquod fire being swabbed on my torn flesh!
I was the oldest, so I took it like a champ. A shining example to my quivering, shaking and pleading little sister! While this hideous medicinal concoction was dripping from the glass wand in search of the horrible boo boo, she would twist, snort, contort into positions thought unattainable in a futile attempt to escape the inevitable!
And heaven forbid if you made the mistake of declaring you had a swollen or sore throat! Nothing like a good, deep swabbing with a q-tip satured with Mercurochrome to stave off infection, OMG!!!
All these horrific memories came to the front of my brain today when my husband, while looking for the antibiotic oinment said, "Hey, whatever happened to Mercurochrome or Merthiolate?"
I jumped at the chance to google this devil medicine and realized...we are lucky we survived!
on July 12, 2011, 6:06 pm