This was the third time in about three years that I had to take prescription medications while I didn’t have the full use or even partial use of one hand or arm. I broke one of my fingers and got a pin inserted for a while in 2005, I had a shoulder surgery in 2006 because of a car accident, and now the dog bites. All three times, I had to take antibiotics of course and pain killers. And all three times, the pharmacists kept giving me pills in child-proof bottles that are impossible to open not only when you can’t use one hand but also when you have the full use of both hands! All three times, I was clearly bandaged up or wearing an arm sling – this time even the blood seeped through the heavily bandaged hand because the wound was left open intentionally. But it’s like these people are either blind or don’t have common sense. I even asked for “NO child-proof” bottles a few times and somebody even volunteered to put it in the system so that I never have to ask for it again or worry about it again. Well, yet, they keep giving me those hard to open child-proof bottles.
This time was no different. I didn’t remember to ask for it – in my defense, I was on morphin! When I had to take the medication, I realized the pills were in the wrong kind of bottles. After trying to open one in many different ways, I finally was able to by holding the bottle horizontally with the cap against the wall and pressing my body against the bottle while twisting it to open the fucking thing. It took me good 5 minutes to do it, and once open, I wasn’t going to put them back in there. So the antibiotic was in vitamin B bottle, and percocet was in calcium bottle. I’ve just transferred back the medications to the properly labeled pill bottles cause, you know, I don’t want to have to take percocet thinking that it will help my bones get stronger.
I’m already not happy about all these child-proof this and child-proof that and being forced to be inconvenienced by them. I have to dog-proof a lot of things and my dogs can get through child-proof pill bottles and what not IF they were allowed to get to it. Why can’t parents simply put things away from the reach of children just like I put things away so that my dogs can’t get to them when I’m not looking? Yes, I might be fretting about things like this because I don’t have kids. But isn’t it true that people are increasingly transfering the child-rearing responsibilities to the general public than the child’s parents?
There is a reason why I don’t have a kid. I don’t want one. I don’t want the responsibility. So yeah, call me cold and petty and uncaring. I still don’t like being forced to use child-proof products.
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I LOVE YOU AND I AGREE.
Wholeheartedly.
I call childproof shit ‘Tori proof’ because I can never figure out how to open the fucking things.
While I completely understand where you’re coming from (don’t have kids, don’t want them, would sooner spay myself with a spork, etc), I work in a pharmacy filling scripts and I can tell you that in most cases the note (on our system) to have non-safety caps is small. Our computers print it in a stupid spot on the label sheets, on a sticker that we don’t use and therefore seldom even look at. 90% of the safety caps I put on are for regulars that I know get the nonsafety caps by memory rather than by looking at the labels.
Depending on what pharmacy you go to the option to update your profile in their computers could do anything from just a note in your med history that says “Yoona doesn’t want safety caps!” to something that actually prints out and is seen by whoever fills your bottle. Being in bandages and a sling doesn’t mean you’ll automatically get the flip caps.
Did you get stitches for your arm? Are you ok now? Mom says she couldn’t even finish reading it. She is worried sick and prays for you so much.
There’s one thing I need you to do. Make sure to give your close friends my email address and phone number just in case something serious happens to you and you can’t even come to your computer to write about it. You know what I mean… You’ll never come anywhere near us to live and how are we going to know if the worst case happens? Please make sure you give this to your friends who would instantly know when something happens to you.
Please take care of yourself a little more than you do for your pets…
Hahaha. I hate the child proof stuff too. It takes me a million years to flip the cap off the tylenol bottle. I also hate the outlet covers. I mean I see the point but when a 5 year old wants her CD player plugged in the wall, I’d like to be able to get the damn thing out.
Oy vey, I had this exact same problem!! You’d think the damned pharmacist would open his damned mouth and ask!!
Young,
I deleted your email address and your phone number from your comment because anybody can get a hold of it. But I gave it to somebody here so that they can contact you.
I’m fine now, and I didn’t need any stitches.
Crystal,
Yes, I understand it’s not automatic. That’s the whole point. People are not seeing it. People SHOULD notice these things and ask as Kat pointed out. I did have a pleasant pharmacy assistant, who noticed my hand after that, and offered to pick up the other bandages, ointment, hydrogen peroxide, etc that I needed, instead of me having to do it. And that’s what I’m referring to. I really did not need help picking the supplies up, but she noticed that I might have difficulty doing it with only one hand. The pharmacist did not.
I didn’t even know there was an option not to get the kid proof bottles…
Kids get into everything, though. You can turn your back for 1 second and they’ll be gone. It’s amazing what they can figure out.
(((yoon))) I hope you’re feeling better soon. And I hope next time they remember to give you the right bottles!