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July 17, 2006
Slowly but surely
Husband and I are have been in the addition for about three weeks now. Of course, there's no other furniture than the bed (click for images). It looks like a small basketball court. When we speak, it echoes (echoes... echoes...). My inlaws have offered us a very nice bedroom set. Husband is picking up one of the bureaus on his way home from work today. We will be getting those bureaus while the girls will get our OLD bureaus and my mom will be getting THEIR old bureaus. Confused yet? No? Good! I will be doing the bureau swap for the rest of the week, purging old clothes and attempting to make room for everything else. I know the girls are just going to love helping me with this massive job. Good times, my friends, good times.
Since we have been in the room, we have slowly started to incorporate things into the new bathroom, like Qtips, washclothes, spare toilet paper and medications. We had SO many prescriptions that we stored in the kitchen that we decided to move out our meds to make room for the girls stuff and get the little bottles off my counter. We went through everything. We were shocked at the amount of medications we had in there. Incredible. PLus, a bunch of stuff was expired - and when I type the word expired, I really really mean E X P I R E D. Like 2001 expired.
Yeah, that's bad.
We flushed, dumped, poured out all the medications. Then, we came across old epi-pens. We couldn't just toss out needles with epinephrine still in them. I had never had to use one (knock wood) and decied I was going to test them out so I grabbed an orange and WHACK! Dosed it with an epi. Man, that pen has a wicked little kick to it! Husband decided to get in on the action and got to shoot an orange up as well. By the time we finished, we had a ton several (more than 6) epis ready for disposal. That poor orange was just oozing. Nasty.
Well, off to tend to the kids before I seem like an unfit mother. I care, really! I do!
Ciao!
Posted by Cate at July 17, 2006 04:05 PM
Comments
If you have Epi pens or other needles in the house, you can ask the Dr. that prescribed them for an approved needle container, and instructions on how to dispose of it.
Otherwise, an old coffee can with the lid taped on is ok if the needles/other sharps have no human fluids on them.
Posted by: caltechgirl at July 17, 2006 07:02 PM
My woman has epi-pens, and we've stuck all kinds of fruit with the expired ones. Shit, those things are a weapon.
You know what's crazy? We fly all the time...and have never been questioned.
I'm just sayin'
Posted by: Yabu at July 17, 2006 10:28 PM
