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azurelunatic) wrote2024-08-03 04:29 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2024-08-03 04:29 pm
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Medical, particularly medication management
Stepped into my plastic box of nail polish the other night, which did a number on my foot. But it's healing up. (The box was a total loss.)
I also managed to get trigger thumb on my right hand (from gaming), and it kept not getting better until I remembered that Voltaren ought to help, which it did; my doctor also had me get a set of finger splints. Turns out a size 10 ring splint and an elastic cuff is about the right size. I'm wearing the thing sideways instead of straight on, because otherwise it digs into one of the sorest spots.
I managed to lose both the splint and my glasses in the same 12 hour period. I took off my glasses before diving into the bathtub to wash off the sunscreen, and then when I came out I couldn't find them. Turned out they were on top of my dress on the foot of the bed. Then I took off the splint in the morning to apply Voltaren and let it dry, realized I would lose it, and tucked it into the corner of my turquoise medical kit and zipped it shut. Some time later, where is the splint? We started unmaking the bed and shaking the pillows. And then I remembered. Woops.
In medication management, generally my inventory management is under control. But one specific med needs a little more careful management than others. And sometimes I find that I have, say, the July medication with two pills left and I'm starting on August. So I normally just plunk 3-4 pills in the bottle that goes with me everywhere, and in theory I will cycle through the meds, but supposing I manage to skip the same single pill over and over again? (This is, like, the opposite of a serious problem.) Fortunately, this is a medication that can be split! So what I do is, when I'm down to the last 2-3 of last month's, I split all of those last ones before I start splitting next month's. So I will manage to take all of the old ones before I start on the new ones.
Another medication management thing I learned from someone else and have not yet implemented: food-coloring markers. You can mark specific pills, or color-code all your Tiny White Pills so you can identify the red-stripe pills vs the blue-stripe pills when you're still pre-caffeine.
Once I get my 3D printer set up and running, I intend to start working on a gravity-fed FIFO rack for various sizes of my pill bottles. Which requires something larger than battery management, but less structural than can management. I will want something that exposes the labels, less for identification than for making sure that they are in expiration date order instead of pure FIFO. (When the jar is large enough, the pharmacy includes the expiration date of the bottle it came from, and I like to use that date when shuffling them. I open most of my prescription bottles once per Major Loading Event, rather than daily or multiple times a day. The pills that go in high-traffic bottles tend to get put in weekly bags, so I can juggle a closed bag around for a while.)
I also managed to get trigger thumb on my right hand (from gaming), and it kept not getting better until I remembered that Voltaren ought to help, which it did; my doctor also had me get a set of finger splints. Turns out a size 10 ring splint and an elastic cuff is about the right size. I'm wearing the thing sideways instead of straight on, because otherwise it digs into one of the sorest spots.
I managed to lose both the splint and my glasses in the same 12 hour period. I took off my glasses before diving into the bathtub to wash off the sunscreen, and then when I came out I couldn't find them. Turned out they were on top of my dress on the foot of the bed. Then I took off the splint in the morning to apply Voltaren and let it dry, realized I would lose it, and tucked it into the corner of my turquoise medical kit and zipped it shut. Some time later, where is the splint? We started unmaking the bed and shaking the pillows. And then I remembered. Woops.
In medication management, generally my inventory management is under control. But one specific med needs a little more careful management than others. And sometimes I find that I have, say, the July medication with two pills left and I'm starting on August. So I normally just plunk 3-4 pills in the bottle that goes with me everywhere, and in theory I will cycle through the meds, but supposing I manage to skip the same single pill over and over again? (This is, like, the opposite of a serious problem.) Fortunately, this is a medication that can be split! So what I do is, when I'm down to the last 2-3 of last month's, I split all of those last ones before I start splitting next month's. So I will manage to take all of the old ones before I start on the new ones.
Another medication management thing I learned from someone else and have not yet implemented: food-coloring markers. You can mark specific pills, or color-code all your Tiny White Pills so you can identify the red-stripe pills vs the blue-stripe pills when you're still pre-caffeine.
Once I get my 3D printer set up and running, I intend to start working on a gravity-fed FIFO rack for various sizes of my pill bottles. Which requires something larger than battery management, but less structural than can management. I will want something that exposes the labels, less for identification than for making sure that they are in expiration date order instead of pure FIFO. (When the jar is large enough, the pharmacy includes the expiration date of the bottle it came from, and I like to use that date when shuffling them. I open most of my prescription bottles once per Major Loading Event, rather than daily or multiple times a day. The pills that go in high-traffic bottles tend to get put in weekly bags, so I can juggle a closed bag around for a while.)
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*cringes* Ow, ow, OW. Glad you're healing up!
food-coloring markers.
! What a neat thing out in the world!
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Good luck with all!
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Sovol SV06 3D Printer Open Source with All Metal Hotend Planetary Dual Gear Direct Drive Extruder 25-Point Auto Leveling PEI Build Plate 32 Bit Silent Board Printing Size 8.66x8.66x9.84 inch
Based off a Reddit rec
I'm going to have to learn CAD, I guess! A lot of 3D programs have been frustrating for me, mostly because of slow computers.
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Oh yeah I've heard good things about the Sovols! For CAD, my rec is OnShape which is cloud-based - has the advantage of working pretty well on non-top-notch hardware, as well as all OSes. Downside is 1) clouda nd 2) on free plans technically all your files are public and viewable by anyone, but the only other free options are Fusion 360, which keeps making their free version harder to access/putting other restrictions on it, and various OSS things that are at best deeply frustrating to use.
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That is FUCKING GENIUS
signed, someone who takes a ton of tiny white pills, whose partner takes a ton of tiny white pills, and whose cat was medicated 3 x a day with, you guessed it, tiny white pills
I tried using coloured Sharpie on the plastic lids and the labels but it just wore off.
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As always
.... I learn something from your hard-won techniques.
Major Loading Event brings to mind hailing the booster rockets to Houston.
Re: As always