A Band Aid Solves Everything
Apr 21 2010

Well it doesn’t solve everything, but for a kid it seems to take away pain.  No matter how many times I explain to my kids that a band aid is supposed to just cover a wound so dirt won’t get in it or so that blood won’t spurt out everywhere, they still think it takes away pain.  My daughter has a long scrape on her leg from trying to move/drive one of those big drivable electric rechargeable cars at a friend’s birthday party last weekend.  Strange on many levels I know…she seems to have a little bit of tomboy in her like her mom.  But before the driving incident she was making bracelets.  When she first showed me the scrape she was calm about it.  Then I took her inside the house, and she started saying how much it hurt.  We cleaned it up and put a band aid on it.  Then she was fine and went back to playing.

As soon as I take off the band aid because the scrape needs to be cleaned or to replace the band aid, excruciating pain all of a sudden appears!  She refuses to take it off when taking a bath.  She will only let me take it off for a few minutes to put Mederma or Neosporin on it and put another one on.  I say to her “Why don’t we just leave the band aid off so the scrape can breathe?  It’s not bleeding, and we really shouldn’t be wasting band aids.”  Her response is to whine and moan in agony about how much it hurts and how much she needs the band aid because it hurts so much.  She’ll even start limping and saying she can’t walk without the band aid.  I sigh, give up the useless discussion and put another band aid on it.  She smiles and goes off on her merry way.

Oh if band aids still held such pain relief magic for grown-ups, I would be putting them over my heart and head every day! 🙂

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