How do you keep track of everything? I was helping a friend out recently who's daughter had been recently diagnosed with a new condition that requires a lot of medications. I had done this before for both of my parents so I had a plan!
I get all of the meds, mark the bottle what they are for and then put them in a baggie where I mark it again. Then I get a pill box and fill up the first week and make a spreadsheet for later weeks.
Being organized about these things make me have a sense of control when the situation might be chaotic to say the least.
I know there are many tools out there to keep you organized with medications, schedules, appointment and the like.
Please share how you stay organized!
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I do pretty much the same thing. However, instead of the pill box that's pictured, I have one where it's a box with 7 different compartments. Each compartment is divided into 4 areas (breakfast, lunch, dinner, bedtime). I like this because I can simply take out the day of the week if we go out somewhere, without lugging the whole thing (not that it's that big). It's really great! And there's a whole cabinet in our kitchen specifically for her medications. I bought little storage boxes with drawers and labeled the drawers "alcohol swabs", syringes, prescriptions, cold meds, fever meds, etc. Easy to find.
I'm an organizing queen. Truly.
It's a gift.
I have a binder with all of Jack's information: insurance, feeding schedule, phone numbers to pharmacy, hospitals, doctors, etc...It goes everywhere he goes.
I also have an emergency bag that sits next to the bed and also travels with us, with one extra set of all meds, feeding tubes, etc.
THEN, for medications, I resort to my "real" job as a nurse and just don't let anyone touch meds but me.
Because I'm anal as all get out! ;)
I'm very organized, but luckily don't have to be for medication!!
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