Time in a Bottle

Have you ever thought of the intelligence required to fill medication bins? 

I have 3 separate weekly medication bins (I call them bins because they hold the individual daily groups of pills ...not sure what they are really called) and I have to fill up one of them weekly (This one holds my daily multi vitamin, vitamin E, Flax seed, and potassium pills and we'll call it bin #1) and the other two I have 2 bins for each group so I only fill them up once every two weeks.  (These we will call Bins 2 & 3) 

Bin #1 contains the pills that I need to take with food in the morning and I take them at work after I get my Starbucks.   The milk in the Starbucks takes care of any ill effects of taking those on an empty stomach.  (Yet another great reason to have a Starbucks coffee every morning...that list just goes on and on...lol) 

Bin #2 contains first thing in the morning and bedtime pills.  (There are AM and PM bins in this one) Morning pills consisting of 8 necessary pills and evening pills consisting of 6 necessary pills (All these pills range from allergy medications to arrhythmia medication). 

Bin #3 contains the 4 pills I take with supper.  All of those have to be taken with food.  (These range from cancer blocking meds to more flax seed pills.)  Every Sunday morning I spend about 30 minutes of my time putting the right pills in the right bins.

This is time I will  never get back.  Ugh.  I know it is important that I take all these pills...they are the fine mesh that holds me together but I do find myself resenting time wasted on the loading of pills into individual bins.  lol 

Of course, the alternate is carrying a bag of pill bottles around with me everywhere I go and popping one in my mouth now and then.  Yeah, this is the best method  but it is still annoying that it has almost become a second job keeping up with what pills I'm supposed to be taking when. 

I had my beauty appointment with my friend Nancy yesterday.  We always have a good time catching up on what has happened in each other's lives for the last three weeks.  She has such a wonderful sweet spirit. 

I chatted with my Mom for a while yesterday and she is doing well and looking good.  She's been losing some weight which is a sign that she is getting over some of her depression about the loss of my Dad.  (I think I found the 7 lbs that she lost...lol)  Of course, she would probably never admit that she was down but I could see different signs that she wasn't totally up to par.  She made a major move to Texas just as my Dad was declining so there have been a lot of changes in her life over the last year.  I worry about her a lot but I know my sister (who she just lives a little bit away from) is there for her if she needs her. 

Here is today's Max for you..

"Decorating

By Max Lucado

“Do good to me, your servant, so I can live, so I can obey your word.” Psalm 119:17

God loves to decorate. God has to decorate. Let Him live long enough in a heart, and that heart will begin to change. Portraits of hurt will be replaced by landscapes of grace. Walls of anger will be demolished and shaky foundations restored. God can no more leave a life unchanged than a mother can leave her child’s tear untouched."

By Grace Alone -

Teresa