Tylenol Liquid Products For Adults

Dear Makers of Tylenol Liquid Products for Adults,

Please quit trying to protect me. Please quit hiding my medicine in an iron clad device that these old, arthritic hands have to take thirty minutes to open.

I’d rather be poisoned by some deranged poisoner than to spend half the night trying to open your liquid Tylenol Cold and Flu product while coughing my head off and using my old, arthritic, damaged hands to open the bottle.

I am putting on my tombstone that I died while trying to find the blowtorch to open the bottle of Tylenol Liquid Cold & Flu Severe.

Sincerely,

Constance Barr Corbett

Too Much Rain

A lifetime’s silent tears have damaged my internal organs.

I now am sent for so many tests to find out why certain organs are working the way they are. I attribute it to a lifetime of silent tears that rained inside, not out and caused things to grow in ways that weren’t intended.

Sadness can cause a myriad of things. I would think it could affect internal organs.

This is Dr. Barr writing, as my mother used to call me, when I’d question a doctor. But I know what I’ve been through and I know how it made me feel inside. After so many decades of it, I’m not surprised the doctor knows something is wrong, but can’t figure out what.

I’m too tired to tell him and too tired to keep going for useless tests that show “yes, something is unusual, but they cannot figure out what it is or what caused it.”

A lifetime of silent tears caused it and things have just morphed.

Suicide

I read a post today where a person wrote they were very depressed. Immediately the platitudes began about ways to cope . . . and to remember someone was depending on them, don’t do anything that might cause another person pain because you are depressed.

This is the problem with how depressed people are treated. They are not seen for themselves. They must remember they are depended upon and needed in this world, yadda, yadda, yadda.

If you’re depressed enough to attempt or even consider suicide, YOU need some nurturing and do not need to be reminded of how much you mean to other people who obviously are so accustomed to depending on you that even the great pain you are feeling still is not reason to put you first.

Let the depressed person talk. Find out what the problem is. For this person, it is a chronic, painful illness. I would think this person needs love and attention and probably HELP with life for awhile her/himself.

Platitudes are empty and may be just what pushes that person contemplating suicide to go ahead and do it. After all, if the reason you think someone should live is because they are needed, wanted, loved? by someone else . . . would that make YOU want to stay somewhere if you were thinking about leaving? Perhaps they’ve already thought about everyone else’s needs too many times. That may be the whole point. Or perhaps the pain and neverending physical condition may be the point. At any rate, they need help, not guilt at even thinking of what they’re thinking of.

 

Jesus

Did Jesus have to stand by helplessly as someone he loved suffered and died?

Did Jesus know the feelings of loss of a mother who succumbed to some disease?

Did Jesus ever watch his child suffer from illness and die?

These questions have filled my mind today. Jesus carried with him the power to calm the seas, raise the dead, heal the sick, make the blind see, etc.

Jesus walked on earth and many preachers have said afterwards God was more gentle with mankind. The God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament were not the same in many ways. Their attitudes towards mankind were not the same because God had experienced the world as Jesus.

But did he really experience the excruciating pain of loss, knowing he was helpless to do anything to help or save someone he loved?

That is my question today.

We are told that there is life after death and we will be reunited with loved ones. Jesus would even have had the certainty of that knowledge, while we are expected to accept it on faith.

I don’t think Jesus got the whole picture of what it is truly like to be on earth and helpless to change many things that come our way.

Jesus was never helpless. He chose to rebuke the devil. He chose to remain on the cross. He had choices the average human will never have.

Message to the Younger Generation

Older folks are viewed as “wise” for a reason. We’ve lived through many situations and had various experiences. We’ve seen what happens in certain situations.

When someone comes to us for advice, we are usually happy to try to help. However, the demeanor and attitude of some young people is a real “put off”.

Whether they realize it or not, some younger people come to us full of anger and rage about a certain situation. It’s often one with a quickly solvable solution, but because of how the whole thing is presented to us, we may shut down and not help.

Why is this? Is it just because we want to be mean? No. At least not in my case. In my case, I have a physical condition and stress and anger, whomever it’s directed towards, causes me physical pain. This condition can get so painful that I have a prescription for pain medicine.

When someone comes to me in a rage, or so angry they seem in a rage, about something that’s gone wrong in their life, it causes my pain to flare up and I cannot think as straight, and I lose any interest in trying to help them because now I have to stop and help myself.

So a message to all the younger people who might seek help from the older generation is this: Approach us with a pleasant demeanor and present your problem in a logical, non-angry mode, because otherwise, you might just be wasting your time.