Sunday, May 15, 2005

Trudy's sanitizing hand soap

Well, my niece Sandra suggested I post this, so here we go.

As you know when you are on chemo, because of low, low resistance, I need to sanitize my hands a lot. While shopping at Shoppers drugs store, we, Yvonne and I found those delicious fruit smelling shampoos and farther down the isle the same enticing smells in an antibacterial hand soap.

Now the shampoos were half the cost of the handsoap, thrifty as I am, I figured, what is good for hair, is certainly good for my hands. I choose banana's, you could almost taste them!!!!

I came home, put some in a pump bottle, soap comes out in foam, but you dilute the soap with water. I looked at my bottle 10 sec atibacterial stuff, you know the stuff that kills all bacterials in a second. I thought, why not put about one oz of it in the soap pump, voila!, I got my self an antibacterial soap. Pretty smart huh!

But after a while of using the once attractive, enticing, banana fragrance, it reminded me of, yes, baby puke! Yvonne said, Mom I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.

Well, I am not throwing this out, I remind myself, this is a fresh yellow looking banana.
The next bottle will be another smell.

Why does this remind me of baby puke? Well I used to feed Ron and Paul for lunch a fresh banana mashed with the juice of an entire orange. (I was not in the habit of buying baby food, I was just as thrifty then as I am now.)
Ron, who is 41 now, used to easily gag on food, many a time he gave the stuff back to me. (He now tells me that he is allergic to them!) Bananas is one thing, he did the same with beets and spinach, how that stained his outfits!

After all those years, I have not forgotten the smell!

There you go Sandra! Happy sanitizing to you all! All you diaper changing Mommies.

Love Trudy

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