It’s All Coming Back To Me Now
Ok, it’s not really all coming back to me now (the filed away memories), but some of it is, and that spawned a break out session with Celine Dion in my head.
I’ll give you a moment to laugh, it’s ok. Yes, I like Celine, and no, I’m not ashamed to admit it. Ok, ready? Here we go.
I was nonchalantly munching on some Giant Chewy Nerds while I was driving to go get some lunch. I was picking out the pink ones (I eat these kinds of candies one color at a time), and then there was a flash back.
Me eating a box of nerds one afternoon that my Grandpa Ed had bought me. He had taken all of us girls out one day. For breakfast we had donuts at Dunkin Donuts, that afternoon, he bought us all candy. I had gotten a box of grape/strawberry nerds. I’m not sure I ever made it through that box, at some point I had to go worship the porcelain god.
Now, I never had donuts for breakfast. We rarely got our hands on candy. Mom kept us very healthy, but even having a donut for breakfast and candy in the afternoon shouldn’t of made me throw up. Mom looks back on that event and says that was the first sign of me having diabetes. Had I been at home with her that summer instead of with my father, she would’ve seen the signs. That’s what she says.
It’s amazing how the smallest thing can bring back memories like that.
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June 26th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
You reminded me of the time my Grandpa & Grandma took me to Steak & Shake and after eating a huge meal I wanted a milk shake, which being good grandparents, they got me… 2 hours later I was sooo miserable!! I never got sick, but wished I had! Little did I know that was a precursor to the Lactose Intolerance I would realize I had once I got to be in my early twenties!
Oh, if we’d only known! Makes me wonder what I’m missing in my son? He used to get diarrhea a lot… probably an allergy to something, just not sure what….
June 29th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Don’t you just love that hindsight is 20/20