I try not to order on Amazon, but I was the one who used up the last of the Lactaid before going out of town for two weeks, and I didn’t want my husband to have to go replenish our supply at Walgreen’s in my absence, since it was my fault there weren’t any left. The last time I bought Lactaid — it’s for both me and our six-year-old — I accidentally bought the kind that isn’t chewable, or rather, that, when chewed, taste disgusting. I wasn’t sure if it’s okay for a six-year-old to swallow pills that size, so I made him chew them every time, which he hated. But this kind — the chewable kind — is very satisfying to consume. It is vanilla-flavored and has a pleasantly chalky mouthfeel. I was going out of town to a writing residency on a beautiful estate in upstate New York, at which meals were served in a stately dining room with heavy wooden furniture, and nothing was asked of me whatsoever. The estate had belonged, a long, long time ago, to Spencer Trask — a financier who backed Edison’s invention of the electric lightbulb and at one point was the majority shareholder of the New York Times — and his wife, Katrina. They had been living in Brooklyn when their son suddenly died. Of what cause I’m not sure. Spencer bought the estate, in Saratoga, to get distance from the scene of the loss. They had two more children there. Then one day — according to another artist at the estate — Katrina fell sick with diphtheria. She was on her deathbed. The children were invited to come see her one last time. Say their goodbyes. But then, Katrina survived, and the children caught diphtheria themselves and died. When I heard this, I gasped. There was a fourth child, too, later, who also died. It was after all this that they made the grand gesture of opening up the estate to artists, in perpetuity. The back story was all really horrific, but, for some reason, the unspoken pact among the artists was that we should make light of it. I think we all felt a bit embarrassed to allow ourselves to be beneficiaries of such extraordinary wealth, and the joking helped us to distance ourselves from our benefactors. Did you hear — one artist said — that Spencer himself died while on the train to visit his mistress in New York? He was shaving when the train abruptly stopped, and he accidentally slit his throat. Or it’s possible a chandelier fell on his head and crushed him. That was the other rumor.
In any case, there I was. I wrote a lot. I took long walks around the lakes of the estate, each named after a different family member, Lake Spencer and Lake Katrina and so on. My only regret was that I myself had no Lactaid. The meals could be rich, hard on my stomach. Once I ate a whole panna cotta or flan — I can’t ever tell the two apart — and suffered a lot. I missed the six-year-old but didn’t feel guilty at having gone on this trip, my longest since he was born. He had his dad with him. He had his Lactaid. It was safer to be there, at home, than in this haunted place.
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| Key Claim | Prevents discomfort from dairy sensitivity due to lactose* * This statement has not been evaluated by the Food & Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat or cure any disease. | Simply have one Lactaid Fast Act Supplement with your first bite or sip of dairy and enjoy dairy wherever and whenever you want. | Take three caplets with your first bite or sip of dairy, so you can enjoy dairy wherever and whenever you want. |
| Count Size | 12 ct, 32 ct, 60 ct, 96 ct | 32 ct, 60 ct | 120 ct |
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