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5:03am February 2, 2015
[Alcohol swab.  Held in my hand, with a ring on it, in the dark.]I love these things.I love the way they smell.  Especially after i’ve been dumping bile out of my feeding tube into a cup – which, if you’ve never done it before, can reek to high heaven – and a caregiver pulls out the alcohol swab and starts cleaning the luer-lock tip of my g-tube, and suddenly all I smell is rubbing alcohol, instead of bile and other gastric juices.I love the way they are the only real way I can get sticky medication residue off of my fingers,  (Lookin’ at you, leaky Benadryl syringe-cap-thing.)I just really love alcohol swabs, they’re useful for so many things and they smell good.  They smell clean.  I know some people have bad associations with “antiseptic smells” like that, but for me it’s always a “wow, this stuff kills germs, smells good” thing, especially since I’ve gone on CellCept, an immunosuppressant (which likely has synergistic reactions with my dexamethasone in terms of suppressing my immune system). 

[Alcohol swab.  Held in my hand, with a ring on it, in the dark.]

I love these things.

I love the way they smell.  Especially after i’ve been dumping bile out of my feeding tube into a cup – which, if you’ve never done it before, can reek to high heaven – and a caregiver pulls out the alcohol swab and starts cleaning the luer-lock tip of my g-tube, and suddenly all I smell is rubbing alcohol, instead of bile and other gastric juices.

I love the way they are the only real way I can get sticky medication residue off of my fingers,  (Lookin’ at you, leaky Benadryl syringe-cap-thing.)

I just really love alcohol swabs, they’re useful for so many things and they smell good.  They smell clean.  I know some people have bad associations with “antiseptic smells” like that, but for me it’s always a “wow, this stuff kills germs, smells good” thing, especially since I’ve gone on CellCept, an immunosuppressant (which likely has synergistic reactions with my dexamethasone in terms of suppressing my immune system). 

Notes:
  1. vassraptor said: Not just me, then.
  2. ischemgeek said: I like smell of alcohol swabs, but they irritate my skin horrendously - like bright red mark & raw rash for two weeks - so they have to use iodine on me.
  3. pointytilly said: I like the smell of it too. Like you said, takes care of a lot of nasty things and sticky things. Doesn’t leave a bad texture of its own. Soap and a lot of cleaning things freak out texture parts of my brain, but alcohol (and white vinegar) are okay.
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