Pluggers by Rick McKee for March 09, 2024

You’re a plugger if you forget to take your memory medication.

Repeat all the brand names out loud one after the other, and they sound like the syllables in Medieval wizard’s magic spell!

If that many medications then shoulda been dead already by so many side effects.

Would try other alternatives before taking that many pills ;-)

A smart plugger (is that an oxymoron?) with that many prescriptions might use a spice rack to keep them organized.

Sounds about like my wife. She uses a travel makeup bag that has little pockets she puts the pill and eye drop bottles in.

Four bottles doesn’t seem like they merit a bag, but I’m only 72. Things will probably get worse.

Pluggers eat four meals a day. Breakfast, lunch, supper, and evening pills.

Praise God, although I’m not in the best shape, I’ve managed to stay healthy enough that I don’t need pills! I attribute it to eating plenty of vegetables, dark colorful fruit, and supplemental fiber.

I take a lot of supplements but still fit them into a pill box, can’t imagine getting those out every day, you still need pill boxes to arrange them in.

Plugger should use a talking reminder clock.

Like Hugh Laurie said in House… ALL the drugs I prescribe are addictive and potentially dangerous… My advice, get off as many prescription drugs as you can using diet and supplements.

Yikes! If you have that many, half are probably expired and the other half are counteracting each other.

Count your blessings / gifts / breaks from the Universe.

Maladies aplenty — just filled up the third drawer in a 3-drawer, floor-standing set of storage drawers… not counting the must-refrigerate drugs.

Live long and prosper… and carry all the insurance you can afford!

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So?

Today’s strip is tragic rather than comic.

I’m getting there!

That would have made me a plugger 40 yrs ago when I was 20 – lol

I have to take 5 pills a day – 3 when wake and then one at lunch and one at dinner. Husband has to take same plus another pill at lunch and dinner, yet another at dinner, and two at bedtime plus insulin.

On Saturday nights after dinner I lay out our pills in 5 day of the week boxes – one each for upstairs, one each for lunch/dinner and one for him for bedtime.

When we travel in our little RV I have a different setup for the pills. I have one of those boxes where all the pills for the same day are in a box with sections for the times of the day for each day and they fit into a tray. Before we go away I will take the boxes for the days we will be away (generally go on weekend trips) and fill each box – all of his am pills for that day go in the am section, all of my pills for that day go in the lunch section, all of his lunch/dinner pills for that day go in the dinner section and all of his bed time pills go into the bed section. This way the one box holds all the pills for both of us. We take our meal pills from the box the night before and transfer them to the boxes we carry in our pockets. I then put the section box for the day out on his end of the counter the night before. After he takes his morning pills he puts the box on my end of the counter. After I take my morning pills I put the sectioned box into THE drawer (only one in the RV) until we settle in for the night and then I put it out for him to take his night pills. (Works much easier than it reads.)