Being a person with a conscious I really hate waste and always have done. This was instilled in me at a very young age because coming from a large family with not much money to got round, we were not allowed to waste anything and I really mean anything. Food was put on the plate to be eaten and there were no fussy eaters in our house, we were rather like a crowd of locusts. If anything was served up that we didn't like it was either sit there until it was eaten, close your eyes and swallow quickly or go without!
Paper was another valuable commodity too. Newspaper was 'recycled' in the most inventive ways (I won't go into details but those old enough to remember the outside loo will know what I mean) and it was also torn into strips and mixed with grass cuttings on the compost heap.
We wasted very little because in those days a lot of groceries were purchased loose such as biscuits and tea and all vegetables that were bought went straight into a shopping bag. Plastic carriers weren't invented!
Now I re-cycle as much as possible but today, after one of my visits to the surgery I realised that I would be taking a trip back to the pharmacy with a carrier containing no fewer than thirteen boxes each with twenty eight tablets inside and they will all have to be destroyed.
This is because the nurse I had seen a month ago increased one lot of the tablets I have to take, even though I had protested that they had given me very bad side effects, also her calculations were a long way out but she wouldn't listen. This morning when I crawled in there I saw another nurse (who is replacing the other one) and luckily, she listened to me. She changed my prescription and when I told her how many tablets I had been precribed she did raise her eyebrows and whistle. Unfortunately, any medicines that are unused have to be destroyed and this is at great cost to the NHS and the taxpayer.
Let's hope the new drug doesn't give me the same unpleasant side effects, besides, I've only got a small quantity until we see how effective they are.
Grandma, always do what you think best for yourself. You know your body better than anyone else.
ReplyDeleteI recently had to stop taking a medication I'd been taking for over a year. After a week of not taking it, I was amazed at how much better I felt!
I don't find the medical profession half as good as they once were. There's no feeling nor attention given. There's more to healing than writing a perscription. Hopefully one day they'll learn that.