4 march 2007 glucose teststrips

Each month I fill a system of boxes with the meds I need to take each day.
It's a neat system, and I never forget my meds.

Before I started I had a time I wasn't sure I'd taken them. It had become routine and with all evenings alike I couldn't remember anymore for sure.

So now each evening I take a box, get my stuff and put the empty box on top. The boxes have the days of the week on them, so I know for sure if I have taken them or not.

It's also easy when I have to go away for a couple of days or when I'm not sure if I'll be at home in time.
I just take the boxes with me in my handbag.

So thios afternoon I sat down, switched on the radio, got out the new bags of the pharmacy and the box with what I had left from the former recipe, and started to fill the boxes.

Great.

Then I took the old inhaler, threw it away in the bag for the old meds that goes back to the pharmacy to be destryoed in an environmental friendly way, and reached for the new teststrips for my glucosemeter.

I have a very old glucose meter.
It takes 45 seconds to measure, which is relatively long, but it still works and mI don't mind it's not as little as the new ones, and not as sophisticated.
As a matter of fact it looks like stemming from the sixties. LOL!

Then I saw it: the pharmacy again had given me the wrong strips.

It's for the newest glucosemeter... and I simply can't afford to buy a new one.

As I was walking downstairs, telling evenyone with ears that that dumb pharmacy again had made a mistake, I suddenly thought it would be a way to ask Lifescan, the firm behind my meter and strips, to inform the pharmacy a bit better.

And so I did.

Don't worry, I can have it when the pharmacy throws me out.

There's a new one in the shopping centre.
Much more convenient, and to change pharmacies I have to inform the inusrance company why I want to switch. LOL!

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