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TIFU by not drinking enough water with vitamins

This morning was a real cluster between getting myself ready for work and wrangling a cranky toddler with intense separation anxiety and a festering grudge because I've been betraying him this week by trying to make him sleep in his own bed. We were running late but in a moment of mom self care I decided I could still take my vitamins on our way out the door because surely I had 0.2 seconds to spare for myself. So I chugged them with a little water.

Too little, as it turned out.

I take a multivitamin and a turmeric supplement, and as you can imagine the latter has a kick to it. Any other day that manifests as a slight aftertaste. But while I was driving my kid to daycare I felt a sudden, urgent need to vomit accompanied by my mouth being on fire. There was no time to pull over and we were already late as it was, so cue the turmeric self-ejecting from my body. All over my scrubs, lunch bag on the passenger seat, and car dashboard. It tingled, but worse than that, I knew it was going to stain badly because hello, turmeric.

We get to daycare and I try to mop up my face and clothes the best I can with baby wipes, all while my kid is whining to get let out of the car seat and judging me with his eyes.

I made it to work barely on time and borrowed a pair of scrubs from the hospital stash so no one would know my shame. But you bet that I will never skimp on my vitamin drinking water ever again because everything fabric based that got hit is totaled. Don't make my mistake.

TL;DR: if you're going to be fancy and take vitamins, at least do it properly with enough liquids to get them past your throat

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