DateLog: 10/5/06: Deep Thoughts - Toothbrushes

The Toothbrush

If you get sick, like I have these past 2 weeks, when do you throw out your toothbrush. Do you throw it out when you realize you are sick? Do you keep it until your antibiotics kick in? When do they kick in? Do you start a new toothbrush after you know your antibiotics have kicked in, then do you throw that away when you finish your antibiotics (you DO finish all your antibiotics, don't you??!) Then when you get sick again, do you start all over, even if you've not finished the first referenced antibiotics?

What about those little travel toothbrush holders? Do you throw them away? What if you used that toothbrush only when you were well? What if you weren't sure if you were well or not... because how does it feel to feel well? Can you just wash out the travel toothbrush holder with Band-Aid Hurt-Free Antispetic Wash?

And then there is that whole thing about touching the toothpaste tube with the contaminated toothbrush. Will pouring alcohol in the lid and then placing it on the tube (upside down of course!) sterilize the tube? And then how do you put the toothpaste on the brush without touching the tube? Do you do a leaf motion, dragging the toothpaste along and then ending mid-air? As you do when decorating a cake? Or do you do the flower motion, squeezing lots of toothpaste on the brush and then lightly pushing down and then up? So many questions, so little time!

Comments and thoughts welcomed!

P.S. My cholesterol was 136 and my triglycerides were 88. Now really how can I be sick??