Today, like every day since my wife was prescribed antibiotics for an infection, I had to hide one of the pills inside her food, because she'd apparently rather fall seriously ill than swallow them like an adult. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, just like everyday, I opened my med box, took out a blister pack and took one of the pills before putting the pack back in the box. Today, not like everyday, I had diarrhea. Turns out one of the packs was laxatives put in my med box by my boyfriend because they looked the same as my meds. FML
Today, my daughter wanted to show me the tooth she had just lost. As I was in a rush to leave for work, I quickly picked up and swallowed my pill that was on the kitchen table. It was only until I looked back down at the table did I see not only my pill, but one extremely angry daughter glaring at me. FML
Today, my girlfriend came back from visiting her family. She'd forgotten to take her pills, and decided to "catch up" by taking almost a week's worth of birth control and prescription pills. She's fine, but I had to convince the ER staff that she's not suicidal, just stupid. FML
Today, I puked up an anti-nausea pill. FML
Today, my wife called me at work, crying, because she shat her pants. I'd feel more sympathy if she ever ate fruit, or vegetables, or anything other than sugar and carbs, or took the prescription fiber supplements her doctor prescribed. FML
Today, my daughter has an ear infection and hasn’t slept more than 15 minutes a night for the last three days. Well tonight she was finally asleep, but I needed to take my own tablets. I had a violent coughing fit while choking on them, and woke her up. FML
Today, I found out that when they put "Take with food" on the side of antibiotics, what they really mean is "Take with food because this stuff is gonna liquefy everything in your G.I. tract, and make you have to run out of the middle of calculus for the worst diarrhea ever." FML
Today, when I picked up my repeat subscription of anti-anxiety medication, they had changed the packaging to be more 'child safe'. Now it's so hard to get the pills out that I had an anxiety attack trying to take one. FML
Today, I forgot to bring my lunch to work. I got so hungry, I resorted to eating antacid tablets from the medicine cabinet for lunch. FML
Today, in preparation for a presentation at work, I decided to take a handful of vitamins to fight my cold. As I was putting the bottles away, I noticed one of them was a laxative. FML
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thatonegirlnic 10
You would think with all our technology they would make all pills in gummy form by now. Problem solved
FindingYujin 26
Well, I hope she isn't taking them at a different time and overdosing. If not, that's kind of childish (if she dislikes swallowing pills) unless she doesn't believe in medicine and whatnot.
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worldclassrager 41
I don't like the drugs but the drugs like me ~MM
hunkoira 10
wow
shaytards_fml 9
you're such a sweetheart
blackonblight 33
So, wait, are you medicating her against her will? Logic be damned, that's kind of uncool. If she knows you're doing this, fine, but if she made a choice not to take the medication at all, against medical advice, she is an adult and can make that choice.
Sniper_Chick4110 20
That's love! In sickness and in health right? My vows given to me by the priest had some line about keeping my hedges trimmed, there was a huge moment of awkward silence caught on my wedding video too as my entire family digested it. Great stuff those vows!
John_Doe321 2
you can't just force her, its her choice to take the pills or not
mbuck87 19
Is your 'wife' really an adorable puppy?
YooperTransplant 8
Hey, I'm 36 years old and no matter how hard I try I can't swallow the darn things. Have some sympathy. The stuff tastes godawful if you have to take it out of the caplets to get it down. (Unless she *can* swallow pills and just doesn't want to take these.) Finally folks, remember, use antibiotics when prescribed but be careful about overuse and even overprescription. That's how we get antibiotic-resistant bugs.
amisenho 11
From what you mentioned, having to hide the medicine in her food implies that she isn't aware of the medicine and is unwilling to take it herself. I'm sure your actions were met with good intentions, but giving someone medication without their knowledge or consent is pretty shifty (and probably illegal). Unless the patient is an infant or comatose adult (or if you're her physician), it should only be up to the discretion of both the physician and the person taking the medication. It's her choice not to take the medication, and if she does become worse-off, then she chose to avoid taking her medicine and must follow through with the consequences, however it may indirectly affect you. As a few others have mentioned, if pills aren't her thing, she needs to be an adult about this and seek other forms of intake, such as shots or liquid medication, instead of putting herself at risk and worrying you to anxiety.
blackonblight 33
Thank you! I hadn't even considered the legal aspect, just how morally unsound medicating someone against their will was.
howdoilogin 9
Yeah, I know how hard it is to get girls to swallow too.