I've just completed a new "Current Med & Supplement Schedule"...
...over at The Dailies. I've changed the link to the right. If you are interested, the immediately previous link will also take you to it.
    Funny thing: By type, her prescribed medications and supplements have slightly decreased, even though we have a new one, the Albuterol/Ipratropium inhaler. This pleases me. Aside from not wanting her to become one of the overmedicated elderly, because her med/supplement schedule is spread liberally throughout the day we have an active joke between us that Mom "can't do anything without taking a pill first." I wouldn't, of course, deny her a medication that was necessary and indicated. I'm assuming that at sometime before her death there may be a need for, for instance, antibiotic regimens here and there, perhaps pain meds stronger than her current and occasional acetaminophen, there may even be other meds that will be added to her schedule in order to achieve the "comfort and palliative effects" that Hospice is designed to ensure. As these meds crop up I will try to keep the medication schedule up to date.
    Later.
- posted by Gail Rae @ 12:52   email  this post