BC Powders-One of the things that many people swear by happens to be BC. Oh sure you got Goody’s and you may remember Snap back with Stanback but BC was the favorite headache powder Of Aunt Kate Elliott and Uncle Roy Elliott. I thought of it the other day when a friend named Trevor told about the hazards of taking it while driving a jeep. Mother took it for arthritis pain as does the famed ‘Bird Woman of Pigeon Forge’. They took the BC in the green package which has a bit more of the powdered buffered aspirin plus a good shot of caffeine. I guess it is supposed to work better since it is a powder and is easier to dissolve. I have to say I do not like the taste but as I got older I will agree that I supplement my meds with it as it does help with pain. Of course I am not a purist like Mom and Aunt Kate both of whom would unwrap the powder and placed it on their tongues to wash it down with water. Now Uncle Roy placed it on the tongue but washed it down with a short Coke. This often made him look like a ‘mad dog’ as he foamed at the mouth. When I take it I place in juice and stir it in to mask the taste. I guess Aunt Erma and Aunt Jewel took more than a few too and I remember the faces they would make as many times they took BC with anything. They just let it melt. But back to Trevor’s mention of the dangers of taking it while driving a jeep. In 1994 Mom and my ex wife where in the Cadillac with me and we were driving near Sugarlands in the Great Smoky Mountains not far from Gatlinburg. Mom had multiple operations on her hips and knees and still had a lot of pain. She loved the Caddy as it had heated seats and lumbar support it was the best seat she had. Much better than any chair in the hotel or a restaurant it was. We had been driving a lot that day and Mom had the seat hot and the lumbar working and still wanted to take a BC. Wifey handed her the Aladdin Thermos as we had it filled with water for just such a need. Mom took the bottle and opened it and poured the cold liquid into the handy screw top she had removed and held in one hand. She sits the cup on the door of the glove box and starts to put the BC on the tongue when she had a delayed reaction to something silly the ex had said. As Mom started to laugh and stop it was too late as she was already committed to taking the magic white powders. While laughing the powder sprays out her mouth and nose. This strangles her and jokes her while Wifey laughs at mom-in-law’s woes. I am in shock as I watch the cloud of white roil in the Cad while followed by a mist of spray and spittle. I try to stop only to get honked at by a line of hot and bothered tourist who must have been angered to road rage by a lurching, halting, braking car. I got stopped on the shoulder of the road and sat there while Mom hacked and coughed and mumbled about she was ch-o-k—e (gasp) d. She would be al---rig---h—h-ht in a moment. “Tell Melinda to hush!” I hear. Manic cackling is coming from the back seat while snorting noise came from the front. I was worried. Mom was reddish purple. Finally things return to normal and we drove on to Cherokee. Only then as we drove over the mountain did I think it was funny. We all had a good laugh. Long after wifey became an ex, Mom and I would laugh and point out the spot where she was attacked by her BC. BC it is good medicine but it can kill you. You have been warned. Now it the Surgeon General would just have BC put a warning on the package.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 12:42:21 +0000
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