askye | (no subject)

Last night I was such a klutz. I went to take my meds and the bottle slipped out of my hand and fell directly into the cat's water bowl! I keep my pills on a bookcase next to the bathroom (rather than in the bathroom because of humidity and temperature issues) and Anna's food and water is right as well (I found if I put her water there she doesn't cry for water directly from the faucet).

So in went the pills and I immediately dropped to my knees and dumped the water out and fished out the pills and tried to dry them on a paper towel. Luckily I'm toward the end of bottle so there weren't too many but I'm not sure when I can get my refill. Anyway, I dried them all off and some didn't fall into the water so I took those. Once the pills dried I put them back into the bottle, all the coating had dissolved and the pills had cat hair and dirt from the carpet, nothing I want to ingest. I'm going to take the bottle to Walgreens, show them the pills, explain what happened and see if I can get some replacements or something.

Now I need to find a new place to keep my pills.

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Walgreens will probably be happy to replace them, but you will likely have to pay for them as your insurance may not take care of it. Good luck.

My pharmacy called my insurance and they let me replace my pills early (withj insurance) when I lost them-- so if the pharmacy says insurance won't cover, I would offer to call or ask them to call. My pharmacy is in the hospital where I work and they may have gone "above and beyond" for a fellow employee.

Would this be the time to tell you about the time I knocked a plastic bottle off the top of the toilet at the same time I was flushing it, so that the plastic bottle clogged the toilet and I had to call a plumber?

I hope you don't have too much extra expense with this.

Oh, how frustrating!

I do a med set to keep my weekly pills in (I take so many that I really need to do this to make sure I take everything). I've dumped extras out on several occasions, and fortunately, Toto doesn't seem too interested in them.

So, apparently, I have no advice, just sympathy :).