I have found the Medisafe app on my phone to be really helpful at keeping me on track with my daily medications. [link]
My dad will only use a flip phone, even after I showed him how cool the weather apps are (he is legit obsessed with the weather, so I thought that would be a big draw for him).
WTF? is right, Teppy. That is terrible. I can't believe they think he is capable of taking his meds, even with them setting them up for him, in his current state.
I can't believe they think he is capable of taking his meds, even with them setting them up for him, in his current state.
That was my thought too. He's not going to stay on schedule with his meds in his current state.
Then I thought, "This is why we need to replace the internet with a pneumatic tube system, because then he could just be prompted to the appropriate tube and they could shoot the meds into his mouth."
So, you can see I'm always innovating.
Then I thought, "This is why we need to replace the internet with a pneumatic tube system, because then he could just be prompted to the appropriate tube and they could shoot the meds into his mouth."
If the meds were followed by cheesecake or a chocolate chip cookie delivered via pneumatic tube, that would definitely incentivize him to line up at the tube.
alongside the mental illness he's also still just a giant asshole, and talking to him on the phone is legitimately awful.
I hear you on that. That’s hard. Your resentments are valid. Pneumatic tubes for meds and cheesecake sounds pretty good, though!
Pneumatic tubes for meds and cheesecake sounds pretty good, though!
I would not say no to cheesecake with Valium sprinkles right now.
I would not say no to cheesecake with Valium sprinkles right now.
Sounds good. Chocolate please. I don't care if it's the cheesecake or Valium that is chocolate but one needs to be.
Geez, Tep, that is a LOT. All the treats with benzos you wish right now.
The ~ma helped. Thank you all! Shelby is expected to overcome her pancreatitis with our current treatment and hopefully it won't return - although we'll only know when it does or doesn't. Her bloodwork looks really promising even if, worst case, she's on a strict diet for the rest of her pupper life. She's always been on a strict diet so that's easy. Just won't let her drink sketch water from toilet areas in hiking areas and hotels any longer. Which I should have kept her from initially.
Just won't let her drink sketch water from toilet areas in hiking areas and hotels any longer.
Dang. The restrictions that must be endured in this thing called life.
I would not say no to cheesecake with Valium sprinkles right now.
Sounds legit, honestly.
Glad Shelby is doing great, Cass.
My DH seems to have improved significantly. Having trouble getting the specialist to get back to us, but it's Medstar at Georgetown's issue -- they notably SUCK at scheduling with any kind of urgency unless the doctors circumvent them, but you have to get to the doctors first, which makes it a giant Catch-22.
I mean, we're trying to get to him to see if there's anything they can figure out about underlying causes, which seems to be hard with pancreatitis. Though I'm pretty sure he's not been out drinking from sketchy water puddles.
Good to hear he is improving, Jen.
Long day ahead. Gym was first thing this morning, then the usual Monday madness at work, then book club at the library tonight. I realized that for the past couple months or so I have gone back to my teen days with reading/listening to 3 books at once. I have my audiobook that I listen to in the car and at the gym, then the hardcover book I have for book club, and whatever Nook book I am reading in bed. The librarian collects the next month's book from the various libraries in the system to hand out and we hand in the previous one, which works well.