JUST CHECKING IN TO LET Y'ALL KNOW WE'RE STILL KICKING AT CAMP GLOSSON BUT NOT VERY HIGH. ONER WENT TO THE DR TODAY AND GOT SOME MEDS FOR HER COUGH, IT'S MUCH BETTER NOW. HORACE, THAT WAS A GOOD REMEDY WITH THE RUM, SHE DID TRY SEGUMS V. O. IN COKE BUT IT DIDN'T DO ANY GOOD. SHE PROBABLY DIDN'T USE ENOUGH HAHA. I REMEMBER OLD FOLKS USING KEROSENE AND SUGAR FOR COLDS. NOW THAT WAS A DOSE. ALSO "CLEANING THE CHILDREN OUT" WITH 666 EVERY SPRING. RECKIN THEY DIDN'T CRAP ALL WINTER?? SOME REMEDIES WERE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM.
ABOUT THE WHISKEY REMEDY, SOME FOLKS MIGHT FROWN ON IT BUT TO EACH HIS OWN. IN 94 WE BELONGED TO A FULL GOSPEL CHURCH THAT WAS HIGH ON FAITH HEALING, AND I STILL AM, BUT THIS INCIDENT HAPPENED AT OUR CHURCH. A VISITING FAITH HEALING EVANGELIST WAS TO HAVE A HEALING SERVICE ONE NIGHT, THE DAY BEFORE HE HAD A TOOTH PULLED THAT LEFT A DRY SCOCKET. THAT NIGHT HE WAS IN MUCH PAIN AT THE MOTEL HE WAS STAYING AT, IT WAS AFTER 12 OCLOCK. HE CALLED OUR PREACHER FOR SOMETHING TO EASE THE PAIN, THEY DIDN'T HAVE EVEN AN ASPIRN, SO THEY CALLED US TO SEE IF WE HAD ANYTHING FOR PAIN. THE ONLY THING I HAD WAS A LITTLE MEDICINE BOTTLE OF WHISKEY THAT I USED ON AN EXPOSED NERVE IN A TOOTH TILL I COULD GET IT PULLED. I WENT TO THE MOTEL ARMED WITH MY "REMEDY" IN MY POCKET. I DIDN'T TELL HIM WHAT IT WAS, JUST, THAT IF HE WOULD SOAK A COTTEN BALL IN IT AND PLACE IT ON THE GUM, IT WOULD TAKE THE PAIN AWAY. HE WAS READY TO TRY ANYTHING ABOUT THAT TIME, SO WE SOAKED ER UP SOUSED IT IN HIS MOUTH. ABOUT 5 MINUTES LATER WE SOAKED ER UP AGAIN.
ABOUT THE 4TH OR 5TH TIME, THAT FELLOW WAS PREACHING ME THE BEST SERMON I EVER HEARD. I LEFT HIM PASSED OUT ON THE BED. THE NEXT NIGHT HE PREACHED, BUT NOT NEAR AS GOOD AS IN THE MOTEL.
AS LATHAN SAYS; TRUE, TRUE, STORY. MVB ES
That's a goodun ES. I like it. My granny Jones used to give us younguns the kerosene and sugar. Now granny Easterling was a different matter I already told you what she used. If I had the croop I wanted to be at granny Easterling's house.