I am not a sickly person, even in my college days. In fact, I have just been confined in the hospital 3 times my whole life:

  • In college, I was confined in the infirmary once when after a lambanog drinking spree in a creek in Sta. Monica, San Pablo City behind one brod’s house…I was burning in fever. My friend G panicked and sent me to the infirmary. I guess she felt guilty because she’s the one who woke me up in my dorm bunk one Saturday morning to tell me the guys were waiting outside in a car. So I took a quick shower, got ready and all, and off we went. Because of that, I stayed two nights in the infirmary due to tonsilo-pharyngitis.
  • The second time of hospital confinement was when Raine was born in 2002. This was the first time IV was hooked on me (and I guess catheter too, yikes!) and Raine was delivered by C-section.
  • Third time was due again to tonsilo-pharyngitis (again!) when Raine was 6 months old. I was alone in LB because then, Raine was here in bicol with my parents.

So, there was never anything in my medicine cabinet. Heck, I never even had a medicine cabinet. But let me just use the word - medicine cabinet - as a symbol, okey? It could be your fridge or something, where you keep all of the medicines anyway.

But when Raine came, there was a need to stock up on at least Calpol (paracetamol). Because you never know when a baby or a child can run with fever. In LB, at least there were 24 hours-open drug stores like the Mercury Drug.

Here the drug store is 30 minutes away. And, even if you buy medicines from an online pharmacy, you’ll never get the stuff instantly anyway, right?

Therefore, it really pays to have something in stock, especially now that my father isn’t here to go out if Raine is burning with fever in the middle of the night, just because I ran out of Calpol.

Since that one time it happened, I keep Calpol in stock like I keep home remedies such as efficascent oil, vicks vaporub, isopropyl alcohol, cottons, baby oil, petroleum jelly and stuff.

So, what’s in your “medicine cabinet”?