dee dee’s review
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Was pulling inventory on my extensive home medical kit and saw that I could use some more 4″x4″ adhesive bandages, so off to amazon to peruse the wares.

I was looking at the Band-Aid brand and read a review that was in favor of them, written by dee dee.

Her review convinced me to order them. (yeah, right) lol

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dee dee:
Excellent quality bandaids that stick on all four sides. I recently had a big cookout at the lake and cut myself on an old rusty iron well handle. My grandfather installed that well in the 1930’s. I immediately ordered a double supply of these excellent bandaids. I didn’t think much of the cut on my hand and kept cooking. But after 24 hours my hand started to balloon up. It didn’t hurt thought so I let it go another day. I do not believe in going to doctors for every little thing. By day two my whole arm was ballooning up. I was instructed by my kids to put plenty of ice on it and coat it with bees honey, which I did. By day three it stated to hurt and I noticed my jaw was locking up when I tried to speak. People could not understand me. They claimed I was “slurring my words” and asked me to repeat everything I said. I couldn’t get my sleeve over my arm and had those female hot flashes all night long. Then I broke into terrible ” night sweats”. I was completely drenched when I awoke. I wasn’t sure but I think my body was reacting to the injury. My body was desperately trying to rid my arm of the bad germs. By day four my jaw felt like it was almost 90% clamped shut. . No one could understand that I needed something else for my swollen limb. My neighbor is a retired medic from Eastern Europe and although I heard from the police to keep clear of that family I needed his medical advice. He couldn’t understand a word I was saying because of my clamped jaw, but he knew what to do. He immediately drenched my arm with a liquid from bucket in his garage that was labeled “bleeech”. (I think it was misspelled). I actually smelled more like kerosene. Proudly he gave the whole bucket and said I would need all of it. I applied it three times a day and the burning was incredible. I covered the whole arm in these bandaids to keep it from rubbing off. They stuck on really good to the skin and kept all the puss from draining everywhere. After two more days I became delusional. I woke up near the muddy shoreline of the lake. Apparently, I wondered off during the night. I could hear the children playing in the water nearby. I just laid there looking at the sky. Finally, I started the two hour crawl back to my house. I made it just in time. My family was about to go home. Since my jaw still messed I knew what to do. I needed a dentist to release my clamped mouth. But every time I called them they couldn’t understand what I was saying. My slurred speech made me unintelligible to the receptionists. Over and over I called and over and over they hung up on me. Then they actually started to pass my calls around the office to have a good laugh. In the end the dentist, who is very old school, got my jaw released with some large stainless steel claw shaped implement. I then began the long road to recovery. The fever is gone and I am learning to speak again and can almost be understood. If it weren’t for these fabulous bandaids I would never been able to keep the “bleeech” on my arm to cure it. Great Bandaids with fantastic adhesive. They also are four sided which is great if you have a lot of drainage.