One of the chores that typically gets done on Saturday evenings is setting up the medication for the week. I tend to set up mine and Adored Wife's, Adored Wife has until recently set up Social Hurricane's, but SH is taking over that chore now that we seem to have the prescriptions stabilized. Basement Artist takes medicine for asthma but that doesn't require a lot of setup, and Graphics Magician doesn't take anything on a regular basis. Tylenol for headaches and growing pains and occasional melatonin for insomnia are about his only pharmaceuticals of choice.
Least complicated to most: Daily I take St. John's Wort for depression and chondroitin for a bad knee. Otherwise a few vitamin supplements and I'm good.
Social Hurricane takes a few odds and ends on a daily basis but I couldn't tell you the details. Lithium is her maintenance drug for bipolar disorder and she takes some vitamins. She has a couple of emergency drugs she can take if the mood swings or the hallucinations get too bad but those aren't part of the Saturday night setup.
And then we get to Adored Wife....counting antiseizure medication, a blood pressure pill, and medicine for nerve pain and anxiety plus several supplements the doctor recommends AW takes eight different things daily. Some are once a day, others twice, one pill is thrice, and two pills are four times a day, so Saturday night getting the pill cases set up for the week is a bit of a complicated process. I don't mind; it's not a difficult chore and it's a very satisfying thing to see it finished and checked off for another week.
She also has some prescribed pain killers and muscle relaxants she can take on an as needed basis but they can leave her a little loopy (or just plain put her to sleep) so she doesn't take those unless it's really bad.
Needless to say we get by the pharmacy pretty frequently.
So, that's Saturday night pill setup at my house. What's yours like?
Hope all's well out there, friends, and God bless.
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