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Overdosing on Good Stuff
The scariest time for me was when I was nine months. I got a cold so my mom gave me some cold medicine. But she didn't have any medicine measurers so she gave it to me in a kitchen spoon. Then later I was acting like I was on drugs or something like that so my mom took me to the doctor's. He said my mom had been overdosing me on cold medicine.

((When is a teaspoon not a teaspoon? For dosing purposes, a teaspoon is supposed to hold five cubic centimeters of liquid. Here's a science experiment for you: Get a bunch of different looking kitchen spoons and measure how much water each one will hold. Dr. Tom.))