Having had MS for 24 years means that I am used to routine at this point and I am used to brands changing. Every time a brand changes of something that I use on a daily basis, that’s really hard for me to get used to! I have had to get used to so many changes regarding brands of things I use every day!
But this next one, kind of hurts! Let me ‘splain ya:
I remember that Sean and I were getting our teeth cleaned just after my 30th birthday. My cleaning was just about finished and my hygienist was my flossing my teeth. I was so surprised at how much my gums were bleeding! I asked my hygienist about it, and she asked me how old I was. I told her that I had just turned 30 and she nodded with a smile. She told me I would have to floss my teeth twice a day for the rest of my life!
Judy had been my hygienist many years at that point, and she was Sean’s for a while as well. She has since retired. Sean would call her his ‘tooth fairy.’ Somehow I remember leaving the dentist and going to Target to buy floss picks. That sounds familiar!
I have been using them for the last 12 years! I actually buy four packs of 75 in December for the following year, so that I can change them out each time I change my toothbrush head (Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct – same as my water bill) I buy the refill bags to fill them up between bag changes. I got my order in December. Well, it looks like it was a time for a brand change:
it says in the upper left-hand corner that is new clean-tech floss. That’s code-word for plastic and it feels disgusting between my teeth! I wasn’t sure what I was going to do but I did have some otherwise floss picks in the bags of 150 so I’m using that now.
This is what they used to look like:
Now, enter my Mom, Mary Rios to problems solve! While I was sleeping, she went to, not one, not two, but three different stores to buy up all the close out merchandise of the old floss pics that I use:
She showed this bag to me just after I drank my shake, wow! I think I have a year supply of floss picks! She even commissioned the other members of ‘the three little ones’ in my family to see if they can find some as well!
I am not sure what kind of floss picks I will use once all of the ones I have are gone, but my Mom is going to call there to complain on my behalf tomorrow! Maybe they will change it back?