What can happen when Pill bottles are not read

Medication is a wondeful thing. In my case it is reason I am still alive as I am a diabetic and without my pharmaceuticals, good old Mik would be hanging out with the angels (instead I am a little angel for all of you to enjoy instead...lol). Problem is you can get in trouble if you are in a household of other people who may also be taking meds very similar to yours. Case in point, most of my family is on thyroid pills and so medicine bottles can look very similar.

Here is where my story begins, I am currently house sitting at my cousins..fun, fun , fun! (Seriously I have really missed hanging out everyday in the place I used to rent so this has been a great way to relax and help out a friend as well). Anyway, back to the point, when you house sit naturally you have to move a lot of your stuff in to make sure you can live and dress the way you usually do. This also means bringing the meds you normally use so life for all the people around you life is not filled with stress (or with one mean cranky blonde who should know better and take her thyroid pills). So packed up the car (an enormous task as I definately am not a light packer and seem to find all sorts of things rather than a suitcase to stuff my belongings in), full of grocery bags, backpacks and clothing. Yes you could say it was a rummage sale gone wild in the back of my car...bag ladies across the world would have been proud! In my personal purse/backpack was my meds. All I can say is two pill bottles and insulin, you shouldn't be able to screw that one up right? WRONG!

It was a Wednesday and I dragonboat on that day so I got to the house and thought man am I tired today I think I will just sleep for a half hour and then go. Well my half hour turned into 7 hours, waking up at 12am I realized dragonboat was definately over but man was I still tired. Went back to sleep and the next morning I was fit as a fiddle still confused why I slept soooo deeply. Did my morning routine, went to grab my thyroid pills and realized just as I was going to throw them down the hatch that they were the wrong color...a nice yellow a far cry from the violet I was used to (luckily I actually looked down for one sleepy morning second). I thought to myself, hold on what is this, checked the container, yup stupid blonde that I am had grabbed her fathers sleeping pills...HMMM perhaps that is why we felt so blasted tired the other day...YOU ARE SOOO DUMB! (You know you are in trouble when you start to talk and yell at yourself).

SO the moral of this story is if you live with others with the same last name as you, and you are in a hurry packing your self out the door take the time to read your pill bottles or you too may find yourself sleeping your life away! Imagine I am actually allowed to teach kids to swim and have saved lives...Scary isn't it!