***From My Desk in Pollyanna World 🌎***

Hi Wino Family. Yesterday I had to use some alcohol to prepare my arm to insert my Freestyle Libre when something smelled off. Now, I have to explain that I get on my family and friends' nerves because my nose is SUPER sensitive. I looked over at my hubby and said, "This isn't our normal rubbing alcohol. Can't you smell that?" And thrust it under his nose. I got a 'here she goes again' look and a smells the same response. I rubbed my arm again and felt some residue. I don't know about y'all, but I know when there's been a change in something I use because my nose, knows! Anywho, I grabbed my old bottle and started comparing it to the new one I had just opened and flipped it over to the inactive ingredients. My old bottle had just purified water, the new one had me remembering my grandmother saying, "Sound it out, baby." I flipped it back over and saw isopropyl rubbing alcohol on the old bottle...✅️, we good. The new one?... Ethyl. Ethyl? Then it hit me. It smelled just like fingernail polish remover!

I won't go into the research I did because this post is a novella already, and you can do that on your own. Needless to say, they both clean, but my original isopropyl is stronger and evaporates faster without the residuals being left on my skin. So, in future, if I need an alcohol to clean and disinfect my skin, especially since after my upcoming surgery I'll have a permanent opening, I'll be using what the hospitals and my great-grandparents used. Some good old fashioned isopropyl rubbing alcohol. Just be careful and read the bottles when you're buying it if you feel like me. How dare they sell a slightly cheaper and in my mind, inferior product for the same price!! 😤 What I'm thankful for is that my nose hasn't steered me wrong yet... Even if it's sticking itself in business that doesn't pay me! 🤣 I gave you a couple of pictures. Please don't clown me about my pj's. Ok, you can clown me if you can see them, just do it ol' skool, like at the spades table!! 😉 😘 Peace and blessings.