Are Kids Supposed To Be Tortured On Their Summer Vacations? Part One of Two
By celticeagle
@celticeagle (190074)
Boise, Idaho
March 31, 2017 11:11am CST
When I was about nine years old my mother remarried. We moved to Pocatello and during the summer I was often packed off to my grandparent's. I enjoyed the freedom there with the animals and plenty of land and places to discover. First thing I did was to make the rounds of the extensive vegetable garden that my grandmother grew each year and the fruit around the three quarter acre. This included blackberries, black caps, raspberries, gooseberries, pie cherries, apricots and rhubarb. It didn't long until I started feeling a little queasy and then stomach cramps and diarrhea took over. My grandmother was the family medic and her answer to most any "stomach flu"-type malady was a warm water enema. Not a fun thing to have happen to a nine year old child.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
31 Mar 17
I suffered from that from my grandma. I blame my irritable bowel syndrome on that.
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@celticeagle (190074)
• Boise, Idaho
1 Apr 17
@marguicha ......I haven't seen one.
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@bunnybon7 (50970)
• Holiday, Florida
1 Apr 17
@marguicha they sell disposable one application ones . sometimes my daughter gets the IBS so bad and stopped up and has to do it.
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@celticeagle (190074)
• Boise, Idaho
1 Apr 17
I loved it there. It was a lesson I learned not to eat so much fruit all at one time.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
2 Apr 17
@celticeagle Good lesson to learn.
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@bunnybon7 (50970)
• Holiday, Florida
1 Apr 17
oh no. only time i had those was a couple of times before i delivered a baby and it was horrible feeling. when i was little child mom would give me this awful stuff called milk of magnesia and that was bad enough. lol
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@celticeagle (190074)
• Boise, Idaho
3 Apr 17
@bunnybon7 .....Yes. At one point when I had a lot of stomach issues when I was about twelve or so my aunt got me some stuff that was like MOM and it was even worse. Smelled like chicken poop. I refused to drink it.
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@bunnybon7 (50970)
• Holiday, Florida
2 Apr 17
@celticeagle yes like drinking water filled with chalk
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Ahh, did that happen due to intake of too many berries/fruits?@celticeagle (190074)
• Boise, Idaho
1 Apr 17
I guess so. All the different types I ate adds up to quite a lot of fruit.
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@celticeagle (190074)
• Boise, Idaho
2 Apr 17
@much2say .....Too much of anything is a bad thing.
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@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
2 Apr 17
@celticeagle A lot of fruit would do it - the diarrhea thing 
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@celticeagle (190074)
• Boise, Idaho
20 Apr 17
Thanks. I guess it could be construed as such.
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@Happy2BeMe (99353)
• Canada
31 Mar 17
That it quite the story. Lesson learned I am sure.
I use to love going to my grandparent's house. They lived on a farm so we would be out collecting eggs to chasing around the various animals. It always always so much fun.
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@celticeagle (190074)
• Boise, Idaho
31 Mar 17
Yes, indeed. Lesson learned. I loved my grandparents. They were the best.
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@louievill (28846)
• Philippines
31 Mar 17
I do not think this is torture, it's either it was necessary or it was the only remedy they have or was available at that time, well you had your share of the fun and the food
, my guess at least it was done with TLC
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@celticeagle (190074)
• Boise, Idaho
31 Mar 17
And all they know and intimidation factor. It was all meant to teach me a lesson.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
31 Mar 17
I am not sure an enema is a good solution for anything, esp what appears to have been overeating of the fresh foods.
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@celticeagle (190074)
• Boise, Idaho
31 Mar 17
It was the thing back then. Thought to be the answer for everything.
@garymarsh6 (24119)
• United Kingdom
1 Apr 17
OH lordy. Perhaps she knew best and was trying to stop your suffering!
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