It’s a right of passage, isn’t it? That at some point you have so many pills per day to take that you just can’t keep up and can’t stay on top of the intake without help. Your memory ain’t gonna suffice especially if one of your Rxs is intended for your memory. (not yet for me, but I’m planning ahead and saving some space)
The tough nugget in this process is setting aside ten minutes per week with all the pill bottles and dole out the correct dosages to prep your organizer. Sometimes, yes I do procrastinate and think I can just skip a few days and then WHAMMO … nope I can’t. And if you’re on mood stabilizers like I am, that day of reckoning can be a real doozy. Kind of like quitting smoking with a modicum of success and then having an itch you can only scratch with a dirty filthy puff of the stuff. I never quit smoking due to any effort on my part. I was put on an anti-anxiety booster that unknowingly diminishes the urge to smoke. This was years ago but one day I realized I hadn’t lit up for a few weeks with zero effort on my part. Eventually I caught onto having extra money in my checking account.
Expensive addiction.
So here’s to you anxiety. Thanks for signing up! I’m saving my anxiety, money and lungs thanks to that one little old pill.
Then there’s the less glamorous pills like the blood pressure one. I get a kick whenever I go to the doctor and they take my blood pressure and it’s perfect no matter what. I could have just tossed back a pastrami reuben with fries! I make like I had something to do with this accolade. Please, I take a pill once in a blue moon. The blue moon’s when I’m diligent restocking my pill organizer without intermissions.
But it’s a struggle I tell ya to find those ten minutes where you open up bottles, shake out a pill, place it in your organizer all while trying not to drop one as they roll forever … and then ya gotta find ’em so the dog all of a sudden isn’t dancing with the stars high on an antidepressant they found on the bathroom floor.
Life’s little victories. A fully stocked pill organizer. Now if I could just find my glasses I wouldn’t have to employ such a large font.