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Oh No!

I was so excited to get some Kool-Aid a little while back. It is indeed delicious, but I think I have to stop drinking it: It triggers terrible indigestion.

I haven’t had to deal with indigestion (an acid stomach) in a long time. For a while I thought I had reflux or something, but I think I figured it out. I think all the ibuprofen I was taking for my back was damaging my stomach. I used to take ibuprofen every day all day long. Two, three, or four at a time. Now I take nothing. The dull ache in my back has turned into background noise.

Anyway, I drank some Kool-Aid last night, and had to break out the TUMS. My TUMS at home are the wrong kind. I like the berry or citrus flavors, but I accidentally got tropical fruit flavor. I don’t like it at all, but it was a bottle of 330 tablets. What was I going to do? Throw them away? It looks like I’m down to about fifty or so. I wonder if there are other applications for TUMS. Maybe I can use them to clean the bathtub or something…

I don't really care for a single one of the assorted flavors.

7 Comments

  1. Lauren

    Bleh. A banana-flavored stomach aid? Pass.

    I’m sorry about your back. People who just live with pain amaze me. We of the Big Whiner’s Club salute you!

  2. Kristi

    The pineapple one sounds terrible.

  3. Peggy

    Brad– I didn’t know you used to take all those ibuprofen every day. If I did, I could have warned you! You may now have gastritis! My esophagogastroduodenoscopy revealed that I do. The biopsy confirmed it’s chronic.
    Treat the back? Treat the stomach? Ahhh…..I’m so confused now!

    Oh, and I’m sorry about your dyspepsia.

    • Beth

      That esopho-word may be the longest word I have ever seen typed.

    • Carol

      Dr. Dibasilio, I have a question: I have this pain here, see…?

      Wow – you had a procedure some people have to take lessons to learn to pronounce! I think I’m impressed…though simultaneously sorry to hear you now have a chronic condition…or two. Perhaps dropping a heavy object onto one of your feet would distract you from your other aches sufficiently for a while?

      Aging sure isn’t for sissies, is it?

  4. Carol

    TUMS active ingredient is calcium carbonate, and in its natural state CaCO3 (love how there is an automatic subscript with this program!) is not much more than chalk. So, until and if you get a white baord in your room instead of the chalkboard you have now, you have a big bottle of colored chalk to use…for a few characters at a time…until you need another piece…which will make for multicolored writing, which could be alternately distracting and very beautiful. Enjoy!

    • Carol

      [uh…who knows what a white “baord” would look like…you get the idea though, right?]

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