Just a brief observation. I take seven (7) things each morning, (some meds and some supplements) and of the seven bottles they are in, there six (6) different cap designs, requiring six (6) different strategies for opening them, some easier than others.
The easiest one is the vitamin bottle. It has a great big cap and it operates in the normal way--unscrew counter clockwise to open, screw clockwise to close. Tightly or loosely, you decide. The most difficult one is not even a bottle. It is a blister pack, requiring, and I'm not lyin', a pair of scissors to cut around the blister, say, roughly, 270 degrees, and then a good, working thumbnail to pry the two layers aside so that the tiny pill can flip out onto the counter and bounce onto the floor and land underneath any small, handy object, ideally a bottle cap, or a dead spider.
I just realized that in my dreams, I never take medicine. I also run. Like the wind.
I hate the blister packs! For my probiotic, I have to be careful not to destroy the pill as I’m popping it out. Benadryl is insane with the impossible peely thingie. Argh!
ReplyDeleteI suppose I could buy a bunch of small plastic bottles with regular caps on them that are easy for me, and put new meds in them when I first bring them home. But I can't imagine sitting down for an afternoon cutting all the prilosec out of the blister packs. Maybe make some popcorn, make a party out of it.
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