Did YOU know?

When it rains it pours. I got sick again. This time with a kidney infection. That's really not the point of this post though. I have a hard time getting the to point sometimes don't I??

Anyway, after I went to the doctor on Monday, Conal bought me some Diet Sunkist because my beverage of choice (water) was making my upset stomach worse. It's important to have plenty of liquids when you have a kidney infection. So, I was drinking Diet Sunkist all day, since it is one of the few things that I could stomach.

That evening we were having Family Home Evening in my bedroom so I could stay in bed and right in the middle of it, out of the corner of my eye, I thought I saw the word caffeine on the Sunkist bottle. I wasn't reading the label or even looking at the bottle but I saw it out of the corner of my eye. Weird. Anyway, I grabbed the bottle and read the ingredients and SUNKIST HAS CAFFEINE IN IT! What? It doesn't in Utah I swear! Did YOU know that Sunkist had caffeine in it?

I was so surprised that I shouted "This has caffeine in it!!!!" right in the middle of FHE. Conal didn't believe me so he had to come over and check it out for himself. Sure enough, I wasn't hallucinating, it has caffeine in it.

As I'm sure you can guess from my reaction, we don't drink caffeine. If you do, that's your business, I'm not judging you. I'm just saying that we don't.

I wish I had a camera for the reaction on Garrison and Hailey's face. It was classic. I laugh about it every time I think about it. I'm laughing right now! I'm not sure they would have looked more horrified if they would have busted me snorting cocaine. I'm not sure if they thought I was going to die or get arrested for accidentally drinking caffeine. This created one of those "teaching moments" where Conal explained to them that I didn't do it on purpose and now that we know we won't drink that anymore.

Garrison had the best one-liner of the night. "Mom, you REALLY need to read labels before you buy things!" Thank you, Oh-wise-one........and by the way your DAD bought it not me. ha ha!

The worst part is that when the doctor was giving me instructions she said "don't drink any alcohol or caffeine as it can make matters worse." I said "Oh, that's not a problem. I NEVER drink alcohol or caffeine." Did I mention that by the time I found out that it had caffeine in it, the 2 liter was nearly gone?

Also, I had some weird reaction that night and now we aren't sure if it is from the caffeine (I've had a similar reaction to caffeine) or to the antibiotic so I had to switch antibiotics.

If you didn't know, now you do. I'm going to take Garrison's advice and read more labels!