Only "I" would learn a lesson like this....

So, yesterday was rather interesting as well as a BIG learning experience. I woke up a little earlier than normal.....staggered over to the coffee pot and put on a 10 cup brew of Folders Breakfast blend. mmmmm..... while I stood and waited, as usual, I went down the line of my routine vitamin and mineral intake. From left to right I opened the bottles like so: 1 tablet of Women's Multi one a day, 3 tablets of C, 1 tablet of Zinc, 1 tablet of b+ and last but not least 1 prenatal vitamin for my folic acid intake!

So I poured a cup of coffee and sat down at my desk to read my emails. I started feeling a little dizzy so decided to put the emails off for a while. So I went into the bedroom to wake my son up for school. When returning down the hall I had a sudden urge to vomit. I ran to the bathroom and I stayed by the toilet for the next 3 hours! I could not stop being sick. I felt more and more dizzy. As I am hovering over the toilet I noticed that I must have missed some spots the last time I cleaned this thing.....actually I must have missed them the last 10 times I cleaned.... YUCK...then I started to remember the day before..... I was showing my sister the woman's multi vitamin I take..... and she picked up the zinc to look at it, she must have mixed it up with the C bottle because they are identical!!!!

So I went to the kitchen, opened the cabinet to find the number for poison control...I found a bottle of CLR....grabbed it and headed back to the bathroom. I called poison control.... I told them I think I took 3 Zinc instead of 3 C's. They asked me my symptoms...... and apparently I had every sign of Zinc overdose. It does not have any long term effects. Just doesn't feel very good!

So I laid down in the bathroom floor waiting for this to wear off a little. I started feeling a little better so I went ahead and cleaned the toilet with the CLR! Then I went and laid down on the couch ............

What a way to start a day.