Due to health issuse My wife, myself and daughter take medications. My wife Kathy takes about 12, the daughter 6 or 7. I have 15 meds to take in a days time. All of them are kept seperate in a lock box to which Kathy has the key. She dsipenses the pills in scrip bottles we saved for that purpose. We all three take painkillers. Kathy and I hydrocodon and the daughter oxycotin. I take hydro 10/500. Our daughter takes 20mg time release oxy 2X daily. We have done this for 2 yrs with no problems, until today.
Kathy had a Doctors apponment to which they were running late to keep and put our daughters med dose where she usually puts my 2 O'Clock vallum dose. I took my 2 O'Clock vallum, they weren't back yet, and OOPPPS!!! it was daughters oxy. It's now 8:58 PM and I'm riding Cloud 9 ( why is it called cloud 9? ) and wondering what's on cloud 11 and 12. So far I haven't had any adverse effects except for being well oiled and higher than a kite,and expect to drop asleep in nxt 1/2 hour.
Our system has worked well for over two years, but here's the thing folks, if you take any kind of meds, especialy opiates, for what ever rason BECARFULL AND DOUBLE CHECK THE MED BEFORE TAKING IT. I assumed Kathy had the correct med in that bottle and just took it, without looking. My vallum and her oxy are about the same size and shape, but are different in color. Had I taken the time to look would have noticed that right away. Be carfull guys and double check all your meds, doesn't take but a few seconds. If you have large amounts of presciptions in your house it's well worth the time to BE CARFULL. Thankfully I'll probably sleep it off and be ok. I'm of the soap box and off to bed....next....
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