Transplanting a Seattleite

There’s something about contrast dyes that causes her to say no to most imaging.

I did not typo. It really was told to me as fifty-eight. I cross-checked with a doctor in-law, asking for calibration of 58 in terms of polypharmacy, and he said that was 4X the threshold of concern. Dr. in-law also shared that MIL has taken herself out of medication management at the care home.

During family zoom, MIL was suggesting that C. try divvydose, and C. said it wouldn’t work for her for a whole bunch of reasons that were a misunderstanding of divvydose, and summed up with, “I’m sure it’s fine for you, Big Sister, because your situation is much simpler”. It was the most gobsmacking moment ever for me, because I suddenly realized that C. is doing what C is doing at least in part as a way of one-upping MIL / her big sis. I eventually said, I’m not trying to convince you C., but divvydose will actually do [list of things C. thought it would not] and MIL confirmed what I was saying. C. then resorted to, “the mail doesn’t consistently arrive at my house”, and finally conceded that she’d look into divvydose. Somewhere in there MIL shared that she was taking metformin. I didn’t ask, and neither should anyone else, altho it tracks with MIL’s increasingly gaunt-looking face.

I had previously wondered if maybe C.’s fall down the stairs had been an attempt to reproduce MIL repeatedly hurling herself at the ground until she moved to the care home, in the hopes of perhaps getting into a care home herself. Further evidence was not desired, at least not by me.

I think that divvydose offers the lovely feature of making it much harder to accidentally double or triple dose oneself. For that reason alone, I strongly encourage anyone struggling to manage their medications to look into it.