Pluggers by Rick McKee for July 27, 2022

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My dad puts his pills out before he go to bead in a small dish. In the morning he pours all of them into a shot glass. Bottoms up.

Seven day strips, one set for my AM pills another for the PM’s. Load them once a month when I get my refills and I’m done with it, no muss no fuss no spills. ;^)

This is funny this literally just happened to me my blood pressure pill fell of the table and rolled under my desk never to be seen again lol .

I wish the public education system would institute a mandatory “Language Integrity” course that instructs students on commonly misused words and phrases like “literally,” “entitled,” and “regiment.” Unless Dogman is planning to command his pills to assault the enemy position, the correct word here is “regimen.”

Use a pill box. Some pluggers are old enough to have actually fought against deadly shooting pillboxes in World War II. (I had an uncle who did while serving under General Patton.)

If one takes that many pills might be time to change your diet ;-)

A refill of my evening pills arrived in the mail as I was eating lunch. I absentmindedly took one with my lunch pills. And yet I woke up this morning still alive!

He also tracks it’s fall, recovers it, brushes it off and invokes the 5 sec/min rule. Too expensive to just throw away.

Put them in a bowl instead of on the table.

Funny…happened just this morning.

At a college reunion, one of my classmates, a cardiologist, observed me taking my evening regimen, with an appraisal of each pill. Of course, one pill rolled off our table, never to be seen again. His diagnosis, “Oh, you’re gonna die now!”

Yes there is always one falling out; usually the one hardest to find.

Who can afford to buy all those pills? I agree with Juicebruce that a change of diet might be in order. Thank goodness I only have to take one pill in addition to my one-a-day.

I use my bed to set up my pills. They are much less likely to roll off. For some pills I take in multiples, I pour them out onto a paper plate, so I can count off what I need.

i can be your friend OR i can correct your grammar

Ha. Me bearly takes any pills.

Regimen, not regiment. :)

I swear sometimes they don’t roll, they jump!

I haven’t reached the rolling-off-the-table point. Yet.

Some of you need to get a life.

When I use my cell phone to send an email or text (or enter anything for anything in the darn thing) chances are I will make spelling errors. Even though new phone is huge compared to old one and I have child-sized fingers, it is even harder to hit the correct keys than on the old one – and it was not easy to do on the old one.

When husband got his first daily prescription – maybe 20 years ago more or less – I bought a day of the week pill box. He objected to it. I told him that I did not plan to sit around counting and recounting how many pills there were in the bottle and figuring out how many there should be when he was not sure if he taken his pill. He insisted this would never happen. First time he did, he thanked me.

We now each take an assortment of pills. We each have a day of the week box on our dressers for our morning pills. In the kitchen there are 3 of these boxes. One is mine for my meal pills, one is his for same and one is his for his bedtime pills (takes with bedtime snack). I refill them all on Saturday nights.

We get 90 days of meds at time. These bottles are in the downstairs medicine cabinet. When I run out of pills to refill the daily boxes, I count 30 pills (or 60 for ones he takes twice a day) from the bottles they came in to older smaller (30 day size) bottles – one for each med – which I use to refill the pills boxes from – this way I can tell when I start the last month’s pill to keep an eye out for renewals.

Effect and affect both need to be replaced by uffect, as that’s how we pronounce both. Confusing then and than curds my whey, and TV commercials have messed up fewer and less for decades.