30 Day Writing Challenge: My earliest memory / myLot

Sturgis, Michigan

April 14, 2016 10:27pm CST

Because my mom took of home movies I have tons of 'memories' but I'm sure they're wanting memories that are unaided by means of videos. The first memory I can remember was probably one of the scariest moments for my mom, and it's the reason why my kids are watched like hawks. I was about two, and I was over at my grandparent's house while my mom went to do something (or she was upstairs I can't fully remember). I was sitting on the floor and I picked up what I thought was a brown M&M, in which it was far from a brown M&M it was one of my aunts diet pills. I vaguely remember my mom calling the hospital or poison control, one of the two, and I remember them giving me Ipecac or something to have me induce vomiting, and that's really all I remember from that I was two so I really don't remember what happened after that.

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Kerry

@lovebeingmummy2 (807)

• Aberdeen, Scotland

15 Apr 16

Poor you and your poor mom, bet she was so worried about you

Jen

@polyxena (2628)

• Sturgis, Michigan

15 Apr 16

Yeah, I was one of those kids, though that had to be watched like a hawk. I see where my 3 year old gets it from.

Kat C. Sebastian

@katcarneo (1433)

• Philippines

15 Apr 16

My earliest memory is also of a bad thing. I was outside the house and my aunts were bringing out pitchers of cold water from the refrigerator. They were all pouring that water over me. I don't remember pain or anything, just the sight of my aunts running with the pitchers and a towering figure over me. I would know the story years later. A hot pot of soup overturned and fell on me. I was two. It was not boiling so aside from redness similar to a sunburn, it was nothing too serious.