On the Afloat thread I wondered how things went, but I see here life was not boring for the last week. Those adhesive devices sound horrible!

My mother was allergic to some of the plastic medical tape and so they used paper tape instead. To get a strong enough effect it sometimes involved lots of layers of paper tape.

Benadryl is actually quite a miracle drug. I remember hearing a lecture one time where the professor paused the main talk with an aside to discuss that. I don't remember all of the details, except that it has many applications in medicine.