When Soup Is Not Enough
When I was a child, my mother had specific remedies when we were ill or suffered a childhood injury such as a spill from a bicycle. Like mothers of that era, she believed in that horrible, orange mercurochrome as the answer to scraped knees and other bleeding wounds. And the darn stuff stung like crazy when applied and kept your skin orange for days. If you fell and hit your head or sprained a body part, immediately a bag of frozen peas or a ziplock bag filled with ice would magically appear. It would be applied full-strength to the affected area. Stung by a bee? A concoction of baking ...
