Wrong Medicine.

Oops!  I did it again.  All I did was switch his medications around.

George used to sleep a lot in the daytime.  Then someone told me that low blood pressure makes you tired.   (Duh!  And I had to be told this?)   Several of his pills lower his blood pressure, whether on purpose or as a side effect, so I started giving him most of those pills at night.  Now he sleeps like a baby, but not in the daytime.  Tadaaa!

Problem is, I gave him his bedtime medications this morning, and so far he has been sleeping sixteen hours.

I am the dispenser of George’s (or should I say, “the victim’s”) medications.  Yes, I know I’m dangerous, but less dangerous than if he were to do it himself.  It isn’t simple.  I have on the bottle caps 1:00, 7:00, AM, PM, or AM/PM.  Some pills are to be taken twice a day, some once a day, some all four times, some cut in half, and some in multiples all at one time.  Some should be taken with meals, some before meals, and some don’t matter.  I think.  That’s a detail I haven’t mastered yet.

Can you blame me for making a mistake once in a while?  Unfortunately, George is the helpless casualty.  He either goes into hallucinations, gets nauseated, or sleeps all day – which is what happened today.