Boxes, Boxes, Everywhere!!

Since Ben is staying with me, I don’t feel that it is necessary for me to post early every morning. I’m not sure that it is necessary for me to post every day. What do you think?



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I was 189 this AM; I’m starting to feel like a little piggie. I think that some of my weight gain is water retention; my legs feel somewhat swollen. Then again, maybe it’s that time of the month.

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I mowed the lawn today. My goal is to get the lawn as short as possible before the leaves start to fall. That way, the wind will blow the leaves off my lawn and onto the neighbor’s lawn. Since the “neighbor” is the local hospital, their yard crew can mow the leaves into a mulch, for all I care. I won’t have to rake too much at all, then.

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We had a scare today. We couldn’t find Himmy! We searched the house high and low; no Himmy.

Since I’d been in and out throughout the day, I thought that maybe I’d let him get out somehow. I was sick!

Ben was looking all over the back yard, going along the hedgerows searching for his cat. Since I needed to pick up some Humpty Dumpty eggs which the local gas station sells, I walked over, got my eggs, and asked if they had seen a cat. They mentioned there was a black one, dead in the road, near the Men’s Mall. But Himmy isn’t black, I thought.

But, with a sinking feeling in my stomach—maybe that was there all along, now that I think about it—I walked over to check out the corpse. Thank God it wasn’t Himmy. So where was Himmy!!

Now, it’s possible that he got caught in one of the rooms upstairs. Although we searched every room, we left the doors open in case he was well hidden and locked in.



But I still felt that he was down stairs.

I was looking everywhere downstairs for the umpteenth time. I got to three empty boxes, stacked one atop the other, when I noticed something amiss with the bottom box. Now you have to understand, this box was only about six inches wider than the two boxes stacked on top of it. But, apparently, it was wide enough. Himmy was hiding (sleeping) inside the bottom box and all I caught was just a glimpse of his cheek.

What a relief to find him! I thought that I’d done something wrong and he’d gotten away.

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Finally, Cuz asked about my pillboxes so I thought I’d elaborate.

I now have two types of pillboxes. The first I’ve had for some time; a weeks worth of compartments, Sunday through Saturday with an AM and a PM compartment for each day; for a total of 14 compartments.

The second is a simple one compartment for each day of the week type of box. However, I’ve set it up for my doses during the day. I put a label on each compartment for the hour of the dose. They are numbered, in order, 10AM, 2PM, 6PM, 10PM, 2AM, and 6AM. The seventh compartment is a blank label.

I figure that I’ll load the hourly pillbox sometime between 6AM and 10AM with my PC and the contents of the weekly pillbox. I put my PC in each compartment and my Protonix and blood pressure meds from the weekly pillbox into the 6AM and 6PM compartments of the hourly pillbox.

I did take a photo of the two boxes, the weekly box and the daily box. As you can see from the open lids on the weekly box, both Sunday AM and PM, and the Monday AM compartments are empty. Those meds have been transferred to the daily box. Since it’s after 6PM on Sunday, I’ve taken blood pressure meds and the Protonix from the Sunday PM compartment that was transferred to the 6PM compartment in the hourly pillbox.

Since it’s not yet 10PM, the rest of the compartments are closed. Now, I don’t normally leave the compartments open after I take the pills. That was just for this photo opportunity.

Does this make my process a little clearer?