July
2006
Red car, green pee
Our C3 arrived to the dealer and we saw it yesterday, while we were making the papers for “actiunea rabla” (in an effort to make dissapear the many pre 1991 cars Romania has, big daddy Government is giving us 3 000 RON - about 800 euros -to take our old car for recycling and buy a new one. The sum being a lot more than our car is worth on the market, we’re game.). She’s just as red, cute and shiny as I thought, and I can’t wait to call her mine.
The other thing that happened yeasterday involves Timi. She asked for her potty when we got home from kindergarten and made a good load of shiny green pee. I phoned my fave nurse and asked her if Ibuprofen or propolis (the two things I remembered we gave her that day) could give green pee.
“No, not as far as I know. Say, did the white of her eye turn yellowish?”
“Nope, still normally white”
“Then I have no idea”
She phoned me five minutes later.
“Ada, didn’t you give her methylene blue drops as a throat dissinfectant?”
“Um, yes, now that you mention it .. two or three drops”
“There you have it - in small quantities it turns pee green. If you would have given her more it would have made it blue”
Lovely idea for a practical joke on St.Patrick’s day, eh?
Congratz on officially owning your very own shiny red car. I am all kinds of jealous, I can’t even tell you.
And I’m glad the green pee was only strange and nothing to actually be alarmed about. I’ll have to remember about the methylene drops for future, though.
As a disinfectant or as a practical joke?
Green pee…fun stuff! I’m glad it wasn’t anything serious.
Enjoy your new car and that delious new car smell.
I use methylene blue for counter staining slides. I’ll have to bring some home for playing pranks on folk!
Congratulations on the new shiny red car and thanks for hosting my blog these past few days.
Onetallmomma - thank you! We have a week or two more of paperwork until we get that bonus, finish all the papers and can take her home, but everything else’s in place.
Utenzi - hosting your blog was easy- after all you were already in my links so it was clear that I liked it. What’s a counter staining slide?