And the moron of the week award goes to . .

dreamdaisy

Me. I have just realised that I have not taken any steroids since Friday morning. I piddled about with me meds tin on Friday morning and came to the end of two packets of the wonderful stuff, and I remember thinking 'I must replenish from my meds drawer . . ' . I piddled about on Friday evening, Saturday morning, Saturday evening, the same for Sunday and Monday, and then, a little earlier, I remembered I STILL hadn't replenished, let alone take any! Twerp. Idiot. Clot. Berk. Fool. So, I have downed some and I hope they make the difference. My fingers are crossed. DD

dachshund

Hi DD.
You are not a moron you are a very busy lady who forgot because of your pain and your fall.
take care.
joan xx

tillytop

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Yes, I know you are cutting down but this is a step too far DD :roll:!

Glad you have remembered now tho.

Tillyxxx

mig

No DD not a moron,you were really shook up by your fall and probally in shock,can happen to any of us.
Message from hubby how are you? good you didnt break any thing bar the stool. Mig and hubby

dreamdaisy

You are all so kind and all so wrong. It was a ludicrously stupid thing to forget, especially as I adore those little tiny pills so, so much. I don't forget the other tablets, even the two which are only weekly (well, sometimes I do but not that often!). Anyhoo, despite the temptation to reward myself with a lovely dose of 10, I didn't. 4.5 only and yes, I am already feeling a little better. Ghastly things. Why do they have to work so well? Why doesn't anything else match them in efficacy? Grrrr.

Mr and Mrs Mig Mig? Thank you, it's very kind of you to think of me. Joan, honestly I am not that busy a person, I just give a very good impression of being so! Tilly - I hope you haven't aquired RSI from doing all those shocked faces! DD

constable

Hi DD

You had every reason to forget, you had a nasty fall and were in a lot of pain. So so beat yourself up. Your back on track now.


Karen xx

ironic

I hope the steroids kick in soon and it will help with the knee. Easily done by being so preoccupied with studying the rainbow elements over the nether regions. Hopefully tomorrow will see an improvement.

I x

julie47

DD you are not a moron but as mig says.....someone who fell off a stool and was really shook up and in a lot of pain so your topping up your meds tin was the last thing on your mind.

Glad you have taken some now and hey....they must be working if you can cross your fingers.

Take care
Juliepf x

sugarbuttie

You are not a moron - you are human & we forget stuff!! In my humble opinion, you sound like one of the wisest people on this forum. You must've had a head full of other stuff to forget your pills....we all do it! Don't beat yourself up

skezier

Hey I am challenging you for moron of the week....

Surgical spirit is all I can say

You can't take the title cus well you have had a bad week, you have hurt your self and well at times we all forget out tablets and thats without whats happened to you the last few days.

Hope the downing of them now helps fast and just go easy on your self both literally and mentally......

my challenge stands flower ands i do deserve that title Leaving a ((((( ))))) and a be kind to your self draft as well as a kick of the bucket. Cris xx

dreamdaisy

I couldn't believe you did that - I reckon that was a sign of how tough things are for you at the moment my lovely, I think aqeuous cream might be a better bet - cheap as chips and very soothing for sore skin. Don't buy it from Boots tho - their cream is pricey, Tescos or Superdrug are better value. You get it from the pharmacy bit, huge tub for about £3.50 and you can use it as a soap as well as a moisturiser.

Tell you what, we'll share the award, OK?

I guess it is easy enough to forget things like tablets from time to time, we live our lives dominated by these little things and yes, it does get to be a total bind every now and again. Thank you, everyone, for taking thre trouble to reply and reassure me that I am not a complete idiot - yup, you guessed it, some parts are missing! DD

Ankyspond

DD it's Arthur's fault, everything is Arthur's fault, god if I had a pound for everything I forgot would be on a beach in the Seychelles now. Xx

barbara12

Oh DD what you like, but you are know moron....I never realised how easy it was to take the wrong tablets
Take to many
Forget to take any
Lose them.. :roll:
Forget to put my repeat prescription in
And theres me bragging that I am getting the hang of this... :roll: :eek:
Hope they start to to kick in very soon for you..
take care

hileena111

OIh its so easy to make mistakes with tablets when we take so many.
I forgot to take my epilepsy tablets the other day :shock: That is more serious than me forgetting to take my nsaid or pain killer but I'm oK
As for the 2 of you......I've been thinking about it and cant figure out who is the biggest moron
Neither of you.....you are both fantastic

Love
Hileena

tjt6768

what a pair of morons :eek:

Pherstun

I take so many tablets I have to make them up on a weekly basis to make sure I don't forget any - even so on occasion I've run out of one or other of them cos I didn't get the prescription request in on time or didn't go and pick it up.

Then I've also forgotten tablets for a week or so - one time I only realised I'd forgotten my hayfever tablets a week later, when I realised I didn't feel too well...

We all do it, don't beat yourself up over it! I would suggest also making up a week's worth at a time - you can either get the weekly strip holders from the pharmacy or if you go to a craft shop you can get bead towers of different sizes.

I know the packaging on the meds says to keep in the container / packaging but if I didn't organise them like this I would be ages fiddling in the morning and evening with what I needed, and no doubt forgetting more often!

Ankyspond

I got one of them today from home brands for a £1, four sections and seven days quite good cos I forget to take them. X

dreamdaisy

I have at least three different kinds of pill holders/reminders, but I tend to stick to my tried and trusty tin method: all in the tin, in their packets, then as I take each separate med the packet is replaced in the lid of said tin, then I can see what I have and have not done. It works quite well as a method, until I forget to replenish said tin! DD

skezier

Hi DD,

Got a cure for forgetting the fa?! I just keep forgetting to take it .. and the hair is falling out so you would think that was a reminder

I am at last having less trouble for the surgical spirit thing.....what a fool eh?! Cris xx

stickywicket

It is a sign of the times that Mr SW & I now have a 'pill drawer' in the kitchen. My half of it is (uncharacteristically) scrupulously neat and tidy but he tends to fling his around with gay abandon. I guess it means I'm unlikely ever to have problems with my prostrate.

dreamdaisy

Firstly, who the hell is Abandon and why is he living with you? Is there summat about Mr SW that we (and you) don't know? Secondly, I trust you did the prostrate thing on purpose (come to think of it, knowing you, you did. It's always good to do things proply.) DD (who is off to take some meds.)

Oh, skezier, for me the FA is easy as Friday is FA day. DD

stickywicket

I’m afraid the ‘prostrate’ was a trypo and not done on porpoise. However, I’m now in a prickle as I can’t connect it without making your next post seam uningellitibble.

As for Gay Abandon. OK, we’ve been rumbled. There have always been 3 people in our marriage and Gay Abandon was a lot of fun while he (she?) lasted. Didn’t age well though.