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Memories of Childhood

All three of us did partake the heart pills we each ate sharing it like candy because it had a sweet taste no knowing the dangers we may face Mama is a yelling we have to make them vomit or surely they will die mixing coffee with mustard giving us to try sticking fingers down our throats trying to make us purge was an endless hope Rushing us to the hospital all three of us in tow with the doctor on standby we loved called Dr. Joe on hard metal beds were watching Dr. Joe his eyes full of dread With a long skinny hose he starts to push up our nose forcing medicine down below all at once we start to spew the tiny pills flowing out giving all three of us a second chance at life. 3/16/2015 T Reams

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Paul Callus

Date: 3/19/2015 11:45:00 AM

Must have been a scary experience, Tammy! But children do things like that!! Once had a pupil in my class who drank paraffin, thinking it was lemonade...must have had no sense of smell or taste!! // paul

Tammy Reams
Date: 3/19/2015 1:33:00 PM

Thanks. It was scary as a child but now that I'm older we sit and laugh about it.

Constance La France

Date: 3/19/2015 10:17:00 AM

Tammy, not so wonderful memory!!! but still all part of childhood, my sister put a peanut up her nose and it swelled up and mom could not get it out, off to the emergency we went and the doctor had to use this long wire thing to get it out, oh I remember the screaming and that was only mom . . and thanks for visiting my poem I write . . .

Tammy Reams
Date: 3/19/2015 1:37:00 PM

Thank you for the commit Broken Wing. The peanut makes me think about my daughter. She put a rock up her nose and we did the same thing at the doctor for him to get it out.