As I wrote in my previous post, I like to use the showers at RV parks and campgrounds. Part of my morning routine is to take my medications and vitamins. I take so many that I need to keep them organized. I picked up a couple of the “day-of-the-week” plastic pill organizers at the drugstore for this purpose.
One of the side benefits of these pill organizers is that they remind you what day it is. It’s a well known fact that retired folk frequently loose track of what day it is. We can tell you what time it is, but the date on our watches (if we wear one at all) is so small we can’t read it, so the plastic pill organizers come in handy this way. As functional as they are, pill organizers are not without problems. I would put them in my shower tote and dutifully take my medicine as part of my morning ritual. Unfortunately, these neat little plastic pill organizers would come open spilling the contents in my shower tote.
I corralled them into a larger plastic storage container and eliminated the spillage problem.
Do you have a novel way of organizing your pills you’d like to share with us? If you do, please leave us a note in the light blue “comments” section below. Helping keep you organized in a healthy way - Jim Twamley, Professor of RVing
One of the side benefits of these pill organizers is that they remind you what day it is. It’s a well known fact that retired folk frequently loose track of what day it is. We can tell you what time it is, but the date on our watches (if we wear one at all) is so small we can’t read it, so the plastic pill organizers come in handy this way. As functional as they are, pill organizers are not without problems. I would put them in my shower tote and dutifully take my medicine as part of my morning ritual. Unfortunately, these neat little plastic pill organizers would come open spilling the contents in my shower tote. 
I corralled them into a larger plastic storage container and eliminated the spillage problem. 
Do you have a novel way of organizing your pills you’d like to share with us? If you do, please leave us a note in the light blue “comments” section below. Helping keep you organized in a healthy way - Jim Twamley, Professor of RVing
4 comments:
Jim..
We enjoy reading your blog each day..
About the pills... we too, take more pills than we would like to, and find it difficult to keep them in check. Did we take them today.. did we not?
I have found it to be more beneficial the way we do it..
we have a month organizer..not a weekly one. One for night, one for day. don't have to fill it as often either..
Happy traveling..
The Thomas' from Georgia
I organize my pills almost exactly the way you do, but I have four containers, the equivalent of a month's worth. I try to keep the four filled all the time, replenishing the previous week when it empty. This also is good way to know if you have enough medication and whether you should seek a refill.
We also use the same type of containers but they have one row for am and one row for pm. Then so we still don't forget, we set the alarm on our cell phone to go off once in the morning and once in the evening. No more forgetting.
The Mechams
Don't cross the boarder with your pills like that it's ..."not recomended" by US customs....
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