I guess maybe it is because I am (or
was) of a lower income status but there is a lot of stuff in a grocery store
that you just kind of overlook and pass by. Your income is limited and so some
things just never make it onto your radar. There were certain aisles in the
grocery store that you just never went down. I do not really need to go down
the aisle where they kept the Ensure or the Glucerna. Or the diabetic granola
bars. Whatever. Not since Alex was a baby did I have any reason to go down the
aisle with all the baby food. And one of the biggest examples is basically the
whole front of the pharmacy.
The products in front of the pharmacy
are stacked deep but not sold cheap. Basically you have hundreds of bottles of
vitamins, pills, extracts, oils and such that I never thought about purchasing.
But very early in the stages of this
whole thing (don’t ask me why I am just now getting around to posting about
this) everyone started on a very strict regimen of vitamins. Whether it is
one-a-day vitamins, Vitamin C, Super Omega-3 fish oil, whatever you need, we
have all been taking vitamins on a regular basis to try to keep ourselves as
healthy as possible.
Kasondra’s medical training was more
about setting broken bones and patching holes and while Kim and Jennifer can
tell you what medicines do what, no one here is even remotely capable of
diagnosing any sort of serious medical illness. So everyone is kind of taking
the Ben Franklin route where an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
You know those zinc cold pills you are supposed to take whenever you feel
yourself getting sick? We have those portioned and rationed out for all our
members so that when the weather gets colder, people will just take them like a
multi-vitamin every day to keep us in top condition.
I have to be completely honest with
you though. I mean we all know the importance of things like Vitamin A, B, and
C. But Tree Oil? Quercetin? What is this stuff even supposed to do for you?
There are all types of extracts and oils. I don’t have the first clue what to
do with all of this stuff but still, I am glad that we have it.
