Obecalp

Audrey is dramatic. Lots of bodily complaints. Definitely a somatizer. Even a small scratch on the knee results in limping. For hours. She will often try to get medicine for her ailments.

Eric has started giving her Dr. M's special medicine.

Water.

I laugh every time he does this because he goes into the bathroom and fills a medicine cup with water. And Audrey drinks it down. Dr. M should really patent this stuff given its effectiveness. I asked Audrey one time what it tastes like.

"Water!"

I still can't figure out if she actually knows it's just water or not. But, she calls it 'the medicine that tastes like water.'

I asked Eric what the real name of the medicine was. To which he replied, "Obecalp."

It took me way too long to decode this but it's harder to do upon hearing than seeing 'placebo' backwards (at least that's my excuse). While I was thinking out loud on Audrey's bed, trying to figure out how he had come up with the weird name, Audrey joked and said: "Oh, don't listen to that Eric! He doesn't know what he's talking about! It's called 'medicine that tastes like water!' Right, Suz?"

I'll have to ask her someday when she figured out what Dr. M's special medicine was made of. But, for right now, I'm not planning to tell her.