So many tablets on the side table now.
Bottles, packets, strips out of boxes.
The print too small to read.
No longer any room for the cup and plate to rest.
Using a lap tray instead.
Was it four of the green ones and two of the white ones?
Or four of the white, and two of the green?
Best not take any.
I think I would also no longer know which tablets I would have to take, if there were more than three different tablets. Sometimes I really doubt whether so many tablets really have to be. But once you get used to it, it is certainly impossible to take it off. Best wishes, Michael
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Being old and on lots of medication can become very confusing, Michael.
Best wishes, Pete.
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For sure, Pete! Sometimes for some people its very sad. xx
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You have company.
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It was an old lady who told me she stopped taking any tablets because she could never remember which ones to take when.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I put mine out the night before. Hubby loads his caddy for the week. Best to you, Pete.
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So many tablets she rattled whilst she walked, that was my Nana used to say about herself 🙂
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My mum had to take 15 a day at one time. She hated swallowing them, and it always stressed her out to do it.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Uh-oh! I can see this happening to the very elderly. When it gets to this point you need a helper to dole out your meds!
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That would be good, but sadly not always possible, Susanne.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Such a vivid memories you have Pete, and potent ones indeed! Warmly, C
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I saw such scenes day in, day out, for over 20 years. They are etched in my memory, Cheryl.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I know exactly how you feel, Pete.
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That wasn’t me, Robbie. Just a memory from my ambulance days.
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Very very creative Pete. I love your writing.
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Thank you, Lara. Most of these short posts are based on real events, remembered from my time as an EMT in London. You never forget them, even the ‘small things’.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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I’m with FR on this one. Warmest regards, Theo
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It’s just a memory from my ambulance days, Theo. They keep popping into my head.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I have the same problem with memory poppings from my entire life. 🙂 Warmest regards, Theo
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Q. Was it four of the green ones and two of the white ones? Or four of the white, and two of the green?
A. Just eat the whole package of jelly beans, silly boy!
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I’ve got it! I’ve got it! The pellet with the poison’s in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true! Right? 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Surely, you jest!
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Lots of great imagery in these short thoughts Pete…nicely done.
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Thanks, John. Most are memories of actual ambulance jobs I did as an EMT. Never forgotten.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I just take three on a daily basis, and I’m trying to keep it that way.
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I hope it stays like that for you, Kim.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Oh crap, someone else has my problem too? Best of luck to you Pete.
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That was an old lady in London, Phil. She became ill because she took too much of one medication, and not enough of another one.
This is what she told me when I went to pick her up in the ambulance.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Hide them under your tongue Jack 👍🐾
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You have seen that mate, and know what I am writing about. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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getting old, Pete. and i’m there 🙂
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I don’t have to take any tablets just yet, Wilma. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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lucky you! i take two and some vitamins
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I’m still only on one tablet so far… Thyroxine. Can’t do without it as I have no thyroid. I’m hoping just the one tablet will suffice for the foreseeable future, lol.
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Let’s hope so, Stevie. You are still relatively young, and fit too. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Does seem the older I get the more pills there are….chuq
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I have seen old people with a complete dining table covered in bottles and packets of tablets and medicines. They must have spent most of their day taking them, and I often wondered how they remembered which order to take them in.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I have Sue to keep track I do not know what I would do without her….sadly not everyone has a Sue….chuq
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Yes, so many end up alone. We are both lucky.
Best wishes, Pete.
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What happened to being positive???
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These are just memories of ambulance jobs, FR. Old people living alone, and struggling to cope. They come to mind on a regular basis, even though most of them have been dead since the 1990s.
Best wishes, Pete.
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You really are not looking forward to getting old are you? I reckon you’ll be one of those sprightly old gents who keeps their wits about them. You have so much going on in that head of yours! 😆
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These are mostly memories of ambulance jobs, Jude. I don’t mind so much getting old, as long as I can remember to take the tablets in the right order, and to be able to read the labels. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete. x
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I figured that was where you were coming from. There are some very sad and lonely old folk out there. Even with the right amount of tablets packaged when to be taken they can still cause confusion. We often found my m-i-l had missed a dose.
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Much better than taking them all. It’s much easier if you sort them into Morning, Noon, and Night trays just once a week like me. You can check to see each box is the same before you start forgetting to take them.
Hugs
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That lady should have had a Dosset Box, filled by a District Nurse or pharmacist. But she was clinging on to her ‘independence’, David.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Wise choice. I must make an appointment with my optician soon, it’s long overdue.
Sunny greetings to you in Beetley,
The Fab Four of Cley Xx Xx
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The local opticians have stayed open here throught the pandemic, Dina. 🙂
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good call
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I saw so many people like that, Beth. Totally confused about their medication, and either not taking it, or taking the wrong amounts.
Best wishes, Pete.
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