The Things We Do For Our Children
Of all the changes that have taken place in my body, my mind, and my diet, I am officially going on record and stating that the worst and most difficult change has been adding iodine spray to my daily supplements.
I always knew there were health benefits to iodine; it helps regulate the thyroid, good for the female system, helps to rid the body of toxins, etc., but I never really perused a supplement. Now I know that if I had purchased a supplement prior to being pregnant I would have used it once and thrown it into the fire to burn in hell where it belongs.
Iodine is a ghastly, nauseating, sordid, repulsive, filthy little foe that I wish were never born. The first time I took it was on the way home from the Health and Water store where I purchased it. I was like Ooo, new supplement, fun, let's take it. And I spritzed the recommended two sprays in my mouth while sitting at a red light.
The whole world went black and I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO DIE! I panicked, searching the car for something to eat or drink. OH MY GOD I POISONED MYSELF, I thought!!! I would have done anything, ANYTHING to get the taste out of my mouth. THANK GOD I had a water bottle in my car and I drank every drop and wanted more, I NEEDED more!
I searched the car for something to eat, a piece of gum, a cough drop, a dried up piece of dog food, but there was nothing to be found. I then resorted to mind over matter. It's not so bad, I told myself. Just a little unexpected. I am sure the taste will subside any second. Well, matter won and I stopped at the nearest store and bought a Snickers bar. Hell yes a Snickers bar, and I wasn't even out of the door before I had that thing ripped open and in my mouth. The delicious candy tried to cover the cruel iodine but I swear it had roots and the taste lingered.
Now every morning is a mind game. I see it in my cabinet and cringe, knowing that I have to spray it in my mouth and suffer. I feel like a little kid whose mom is trying to get them to take cough syrup. I want to run and hide under the bed or stamp my foot and cry, but I put on my big girl, elastic flippin' waist pants and spray.
I have worked out a pretty good system where I spray the iodine and then take my other vitamins immediately after. I then shove fruit or something sweet in right away and let it sit on my tongue. This is then followed by a lot of water, and self pity.
I am sure I will bring this up to my kid any time he or she has to eat or drink something they don't like or if they try to pull a I'm too dumb to know the answer trick. I can hear it now..."Do you have any idea how I suffered for your brain? There is no way you don't know the answer, I drank iodine for god's sake" or "You are complaining about cough syrup? Here, wait just a moment and let me get the iodine, then we'll see who's crying!"
So I suppose there is a plus side to this torture...future guilt trip.
It looks so unassuming in its cute brown bottle with its breezy little label
Iodine is a ghastly, nauseating, sordid, repulsive, filthy little foe that I wish were never born. The first time I took it was on the way home from the Health and Water store where I purchased it. I was like Ooo, new supplement, fun, let's take it. And I spritzed the recommended two sprays in my mouth while sitting at a red light.
The whole world went black and I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO DIE! I panicked, searching the car for something to eat or drink. OH MY GOD I POISONED MYSELF, I thought!!! I would have done anything, ANYTHING to get the taste out of my mouth. THANK GOD I had a water bottle in my car and I drank every drop and wanted more, I NEEDED more!
I searched the car for something to eat, a piece of gum, a cough drop, a dried up piece of dog food, but there was nothing to be found. I then resorted to mind over matter. It's not so bad, I told myself. Just a little unexpected. I am sure the taste will subside any second. Well, matter won and I stopped at the nearest store and bought a Snickers bar. Hell yes a Snickers bar, and I wasn't even out of the door before I had that thing ripped open and in my mouth. The delicious candy tried to cover the cruel iodine but I swear it had roots and the taste lingered.
Now every morning is a mind game. I see it in my cabinet and cringe, knowing that I have to spray it in my mouth and suffer. I feel like a little kid whose mom is trying to get them to take cough syrup. I want to run and hide under the bed or stamp my foot and cry, but I put on my big girl, elastic flippin' waist pants and spray.
I have worked out a pretty good system where I spray the iodine and then take my other vitamins immediately after. I then shove fruit or something sweet in right away and let it sit on my tongue. This is then followed by a lot of water, and self pity.
I am sure I will bring this up to my kid any time he or she has to eat or drink something they don't like or if they try to pull a I'm too dumb to know the answer trick. I can hear it now..."Do you have any idea how I suffered for your brain? There is no way you don't know the answer, I drank iodine for god's sake" or "You are complaining about cough syrup? Here, wait just a moment and let me get the iodine, then we'll see who's crying!"
So I suppose there is a plus side to this torture...future guilt trip.
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