Medicine Mistakes

You would think I would have this down by now, making sure that Caroline is getting the right medicine and the right dose every time. But somehow I am still catching myself making mistakes! I realized this morning that her morning pill box was missing the one of the two lithium and the 100 mg of seroquel wasn't there at all! For the whole week! I filled the boxes on Saturday, so my guess is that I mistook the lithium pills for the 100 mg of Seroquel, which is the same round shape and size, and both look the same color in the box. So I put in one "Seroquel" in each morning box, and then thought I had put in the lithium because I saw the seroquel in there and thought it was the lithium. That means that for about two or three days she has had half of her morning lithium dose and no seroquel in the morning at all!!

No wonder she texted me from school today and begged me to pick her up because she couldn't stand the way everyone was treating her! Yes, she was getting picked on, but normally she can handle it. I did pick her up early when I put two and two together. I am not a detail person AT ALL so I should just let my husband fill the boxes. He is so particular that it takes him FOREVER to do any task because it has to be perfect and checked over several times. So now it is his job, and I will just stick to writing in my blog.....