Sometimes I over do it and pay for it later. I do just one more load of laundry when I should be resting. If you're a mom or a woman you may be nodding your tired lil' noggin along with me or maybe an 'amen sister' is in order. But last week I really did a doozy. A major over do it.
While packing for my Thanksgiving weekend I had to count out my vitamins, meds, and the number of underwear I needed. Needless to say it's not the underwear I screwed up on. I've written before about the mass number of pills I'm popping and how I felt like a junkie when I needed more sleeping pills but my prescription was out... click herefor that post. Long story short, my doctor said I could take 2 pills per night and when you're 'big boned' I needed 2 pills to get + stay asleep. The pharmacist called my doctor who then upped my pills from 5 mg to 10 mg. Insurance likes it that way. And I did as well... running out of sleeping pills and not being able to get my refill sent me into a panic... hence the junkie blog post.
Well that was months ago, but for some strange unknown reason when I was counting out my sleeping pills for my trip I counted out 2 per day. My current prescription is for one per day. The entire week I double dosed- not good. In fact one night after visiting with old classmates and having two pear martinis under my belt, I decided to just take one sleeping pill. I told my husband jokingly "The last thing I need to do after all I've been through is to O.D."
I'm not even sure how I came to the conclusion that I had messed up. All I was doing was pulling into my garage after picking my son up from basketball practice and bam it hit me that I may have double dosed. I doubted myself, wondered why I'd even think about sleeping pills at that moment, then in order to prove myself wrong I went inside, counted out my pills, did some math and yes I had screwed up. I thought about how elderly people must do this shit all the time. It's confusing, overwhelming, and dangerous to make mistakes.
Then oddly enough that evening my husband was watching Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew. #whichisslightlyaddictingwithinitself Two of the addicts listed meds I'm currently taking. Great. Definitely a reminder that I need to be more careful and that packing panties is less important than getting my meds correct.