Ever Growing Medicine Cabinet

I’ve noticed that as I grow older, and perhaps this is a general truth about people in modern societies, my medicine cabinet grows fatter. When I was young and living on my own I had toothpaste, a toothbrush and a bottle of aspirin, maybe some cold medicine, and that was it. Now, however, I need two medicine cabinets and space in cabinets under the sinks of two of my bathroom to hold all the stuff my wife and I need.

Just for me I have a plethora of prescription medicine: one for my high blood pressure, one for acid reflux, three for depression, one for social anxiety and to help me sleep in the evenings, and one to help me have sex with my wife because the others, while they help my depression, keep me from getting an erection.

There is also the non-prescription medications such as cold medicines (plural), flu medicines, allergy medicines, medicines for diarrhea, medicines for constipation, stuff for heartburn, stuff for gas, and of course one that does it all. We also have cough medicine and just in case the cold and the flu medicines don’t do the trick.

Also as I age I’ve noticed various problems with dry, cracked skin and so I have lotions and potions and petroleum jelly products and moisturizers of all sorts. I also have stuff to fight foot and nail fungus and painful anal itch.

For my mouth I have, of course, mouth wash and plaque remover, toothpaste and whitening strips, several toothbrushes, toothpicks and of course the much neglected dental floss.

As for grooming there are the various and sundry instruments. have a beard trimmer and an electric razor, a n electric nose hair trimmer and an electric eyebrow trimmer (my wife’s idea). I have tow nail clippers and finger nail clippers and cuticle tools and little scissors, the function of which I have no clue. I also have several hair brushes, both my wife’s, actually, and I use one of them. I think I have hair gel and hair spray that at one point seemed necessary as did the original bottle of Polo my wife bought me four years ago and that that I still possess. I also keep several bottles of spray cleaner for my glasses.