Last
Thursday afternoon Fester returned from the Mining Institute looking even paler and
grumpier than usual.
He leaned around
the living room door, growled
“I’m knackered and my guts are playing up”
and retired
to bed.
He felt sufficiently strong to
make the boys’ tea but I got
“You’ll have to shift for yourself”.
On
Friday morning I included this in the email to my blog-mailing-list
“Fester has taken to bed - again - however he's strong enough for me to
put the telly on for him.”
Fester’s
habit of taking to bed is why Mrs Eft now refers to him as the Little Hot House
Plant, however on this occasion her response was
“Poor Fester. You must be
treating him badly..”
He
was well enough by Saturday morning to go on the bus to Alnwick with
Ferretfingers. When he came home he
returned to bed. At bedtime he asked
“Have
we got anything like Imodium in the house?”
I rummaged in the corner of the dark cupboard where we keep such things
and came across a packet of Imodium. He
took two despite my warning that I had no idea when it was bought or the expiry
date.
“It’ll
be fine.”
On
Sunday morning he and Ferretfingers went to North Shields.
I
examined the Imodium box in bright daylight and was able to make out the
expiry date: 08-2011.
I asked
Thunderthighs to pop into whichever pharmacy was open and get a new box of
Immodium or the own brand equivalent.
Which he did – one of each.
On
their return Fester admitted it had been a stressful trip and that the
tablets hadn’t had much effect. He took
two of the new ones which, thankfully, seem to have done the trick.
I
got everything out of the ‘medicine cupboard’ and discovered:-
Senokot
expired 1/08/19-1/08/22
Germolene
expired 10/2020
Anbesol
oral gel expired 05/2020
Health
Essentials Ibuprofen tablets expired March 2020
Spar
Paracetamol tablets expired 11/18
Numark
Anti-Diarrhoea Capsules expiry date 08/2018
Fucicort
Lipid cream expired 04/2012
Fucidin
cream expired 11/2010
Medigel
for mouth ulcers expired August 2010
Sainsbury’s
diarrhoea relief tablets expired 08/07 – three packets
Calgel
Teething Gel expired 05/2004
Boots
Soluble Asprin Tablets 300mg use by July 03
Boots
Sore Mouth Gel, tube not in box
Canestan
cream, tube not in box
These
are all being disposed of (Middlesister would approve).
Wondering
why we had so much anti-diarrhoea stuff I remembered we’d brought most of it
back from Sheffield (Fester’s little brother had problems).
Even
so that was in 2012, when some were already a good five years out of date.
