Slight Confession

I'm just gonna come out and say it...I'm like a child when it comes to taking medicine - any kind. I hate it, I avoid it, and sometimes even try to pretend that I've taken it when I haven't. Ry always catches me though. If I have a cold he has to ask me, like I'm a child, if I've taken my medicine...ridiculous. But there is good justification for my hatred of medication...

When I was little I would always, always choke on hard candy. It's a little beyond me why people kept giving it to me, but I always choked. I even remember my dad holding me upside down by my feet to get it out - hymlec, whats that!? It's a miracle I'm still alive. So now, I can't even swallow pills - which I trace back to the before mentioned childhood memory. If I feel anything hard going down my throat my gag reflux is off the charts and my throat closes up. So yes, I cut my pills into smaller pieces. I used to crush them & take them in jam - but now I've worked my way up to swallowing smaller pieces...and yes, I'm 24 years old.

So I think someone was playing a mean joke on me or trying to teach me a lesson when I was diagnosed with an epileptic disorder 2 years ago that I've been on medicine for ever since. Medicine - everyday, twice a day! It's like torture! Stupid pills, and they're big ones too. Only a little bitter. So now I take 6 pills in the morning, and 2 at night...

I also have gotten some pretty bad drug interactions between my meds & cold medicine (even though the dr's & pharmacist said it would be fine - they lie). So now I really avoid medicine when I'm sick.

Oh, but that's not all. I am super forgetful! Always have been. And pregnancy only made it worse. So after forgetting my medicine on a few separate occasions, Ry forced me to buy one of those plastic pill holders - you know the ones, labeled for each day of the week. How embarrassing! So now I have on old-person pill holder, with my many pills, that I cut up into smaller pieces daily...so there it is. Confessing this publicly is a sign of no-shame, hopefully - and also I'm trying to kill time until I can take my pills at midnight...since I forgot them this morning again. =)