OD'd in AZ

When I was quite young I'm not quite sure of the age, our family took a trip to Mesa Arizona to visit our cousins the Scott's. My aunt Helen is my mother's sister, uncle Melvin her husband and her moved to Mesa from Salt Lake after migrating from West Virgina and raised their family there. My cousins are, Wayne, Patty, Connie, Joe and Randy. Joe is about 3 years older than me and Randy is a year older than me.

After dinner one night Randy, my brother Ken and I went into the room my parents were staying in and got into their medicine bag. We found a bottle of Children's Chewable Bayer Aspirin and had a party. This was before there were child-proof caps on the bottles. I don't remember whether it was Patty or Connie but one of them walked in and caught us finishing off the bottle. In a panic she ran and told our parents what we were doing.

My mom and dad put us in the car and took off for the hospital, my dad was speeding and was pulled over by a police officer. After explaining the situation the policeman gave an escort to the hospital where we got to have our stomachs pumped. I remember very little of this event, but it made an impression and we stayed out of the medicine bag from then on.