How Much?
How much fluid does the cold pack used for pain hold?
I swear that amount is ten times more than imagined.
I have always had a cold pack in the freezer for when and if relief could be found by icing the injured area. When we had stocked up on some items for the freezer, I took the cold pack and put it on a shelf in the refrig for the time being. Hmm. Apparently it was in the area of the refrig that I don’t look at often . . . until today. Where was all this wetness coming from? It was not an ordinary wet. It felt sticky. Yup, the vinyl bag was no longer plump with its contents. It was as limp as a wet noodle.
With the job at hand, it took me back to the time Kevin also wanted to know about the contents of a 3M cold pack. I think the way it went was that after Kevin threw the pack on the floor, he would see how good of a marksman he was by jumping off the bed to hit the pack dead on with both feet. Splatter 101.
There is never a bad time to do a deep cleaning within our little home. Everything that had sat on the same shelf as the cold pack had a wet bottom. It’s a good thing the kitchen counter was close, ready to take anything and everything I sent its way.
Here we are several hours later. Job well done. I hope neither Dennis or I will get an injury in the near future that will require more than what a tray of ice cubes can offer up.
Surprises always throw me for a loop. One thing leads to another and then another and then another. The day that I thought I would have will wait until another day. Being flexible goes a long way in the world of the retired.
Dennis mulched whatever leaves had fallen since last he mulched . . . last week. There is more yet to fall.
Hump day with sun. Hump day with some local effort done.