Welcome to the Club - Fall 2021

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Two Kinds of Families
by Gordon Lane, London - from Daytripping, May-June 2000
Welcome to ...
LIFE WOULD BE INFINITELY
HAPPIER IF WE COULD ONLY
BE BORN AT THE AGE
OF 80 & GRADUALLY
APPROACH 18.
~Mark Twain
THE Club
“Your Feet Will Be In Good Hands”
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ADVANCED FOOTCARE
Diabecs, Ingrowns, Corns, Warts,
Fungus & other common foot problems
I hated those rotten kids. Looking back,
maybe I was being a little heavy on them,
but at the time I felt quite within my rights.
You see, there were just two kinds of families
and they were part of the other kind.
I grew up in the east end of London,
Ontario, in the Ealing School area, and it
wasn’t exactly what you could call a hothouse
raising. Our summer feet never knew
the meaning of the word shoes and our
favourite playground was the Egerton Street
city dump. No, not a sanitary landfill site,
just a plain old city dump. Needless to say,
our boyhood ways produced a fair number
of war wounds and this brings us to the
remedy.
Mv father, who referred to himself as the
Old Man and was affectionately referred
to by the same term, was tough. During
his life, he knew only two kinds of work,
- steel and construction. On my birth
certificate, dated just after the First World
War, his occupation was listed as “rougher,”
a person who, with hand tongs, fed red hot
steel through the rolls at the London Rolling
Mills. During the last half of the Twenties, he
worked construction - bricklayer, plasterer,
and carpenter. In his book, there was only
one remedy for cuts and scratches and if it
didn’t hurt, it wasn’t any good. We were an
“iodine” family.
Even the look of the iodine bottle
presented quite a spectacle. The bottle was
brown, matching the colour of its contents.
It always had a rubber cork (any other type
would dissolve) with a glass dip stick to
apply the remedy. The Old Man could never
be bothered with the dip stick. He held the
cut open with one hand, with the other he
poured a dollop from the bottle right into
the cut uttering the consoling words, “There,
kid, that ought to fix it.”
Even the label was one to remember. It
was usually well stained and pictured the
Jolly Roger above the plainly printed word
POISON. As I recall, it came in several
strengths and the Old Man always bought
the best, the large economy size that
improved with age and as it neared the
bottom of the bottle, there was no doubt
about it.
As a kid, I would have enjoyed a little
sympathy on some of those occasions, but
the summer tan mixed with a little dirt was
a matched colour for iodine and besides,
the Old Man wasn’t one to waste things.
He poured the remedy into the cut. There
was no free advertising. Sympathizers never
knew we were wounded, but we did, when
the Old Man applied the cure.
Then there were the other families. Their
kids came to school with their whole knees
painted vermillion red. They might as well
have carried signs reading “I hurt myself.”
These kids were from “mercurochrome”
families. They were usually rich kids. They
wore shoes and dressed like the kids in the
Eatons catalogue. Their families must have
been doctors or lawyers or owned a corner
grocery store. They probably owned cars
too, and had a radio at home with a loud
speaker and I hated them. I didn’t know too
much about mercurochrome. It sure looked
good and you could see it a block away.
Then it happened.
I was running down a street in a section
of better homes than ours, when I stubbed
my big toe. It was a dandy. I peeled off
most of the tread and some of the meat.
The blood started dripping and I started
to hobble home on my heel when lady
luck came to my rescue. Two nice little old
ladies from the verandah of a two-storey red
brick house took me in tow. They took me
into their kitchen and washed my foot in
warm water they got right out of the tap.
Then came the mercurochrome. I gritted
my teeth and took a firm grip on the chair.
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. There was no
pain and they put plenty on, even on the
outside of the bandage. I liked that. They
gave me milk and fancy cookies. We never
had either at home. The milk at home was
just for tea.
As I limped home I knew there were just
two kinds of families - “iodine” families and
“mercurochrome” families, and ours was an
“iodine” family. And the “mercurochrome”
families? I hated them, yes I hated those
kids; imagine all that sympathy and no pain.
But as I look back, I have no regrets.
You see, we had something else. We had
love and we had the Old Man, and he was
something else. He was terrific.
Ryan Cross
Hons. BA (Kin),
MScPT, FCAMPT
Jamie Easter
BScH, MScPT
Jayme Davies
BSc, MPT
519-344-1071 • Julie@athomespa.ca
At Home Spa @ Mara Surgical Clinic
704 Mara St. Point Edward, Unit 106
Do You Have Arthritis
in Your Knees or Hips?
GLA:D CANADA IS
MADE UP OF 3 PARTS:
• 2-3 Education Sessions
• 12 Neuromuscular Exercise Sessions
• Data Collection for Quality Monitoring
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611 St. Clair Street, Point Edward
Serving
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Since 2006
GLA:D Canada is an 8-week
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and/or hips, or those with knee and/or hip osteoarthritis. Research from
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indiviudals on sick leave, and being more
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Cross Works Physiotherapy is proud to
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For more information
contact 519-491-7273
Covered Under Extended Health Care
Jenny Lindsay
BSc, MPT
Reves Henderson
BScPT, CGTTDN
Jenna Veens
BHSc, MPT
www.crossworksphysio.ca
FALL 2021 Popular Slogans... Taco Bell - Think outside the bun.
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