Am I Taking the Right Pill?

Yes!  This is one of the things that I need to pay very close attention to; am I taking the right pill?  With so many bottles feeling the same to the touch, I have had to come up with a system to tell what I am taking.  So, here is what I do.

 

My vitamin bottles are placed in a specific spot.  My cold and flu pills go into another area.  My stomach, allergy, and anything else go into specific places in my cabinet.  Within each group, vitamins for example, pill bottles may be differentiated either by size or by shape of the cover on the bottle.  If the size is the same and the covers are a wee bit different, then I identify by cover but if everything feels the same then I go to plan B.

 

I either use Braille labels to help me or I use my trusty tape system.  That is, I use pieces of tape to help me differentiate bottles.  I place them on different parts of the bottle.  I will tell you that since the birth of the Pen Friend label reader, I use talking labels to help me.  That is, I use the Pen Friend to help me create labels for bottles.

 

Of course, there are other ways to differentiate pills.  By the shape of the pills themselves, and the smell that emits from the pill bottle.  Capsules feel different to the touch as opposed to the old fashioned pills.  Liquid gel caps are long but harder to the touch than capsules.  Then there are round tablets, long ones, and those that are shorter and thicker in texture.  A whole lot of ways to differentiate.

 

I'm Donna J. Jodhan your friendly accessibility advocate wishing you a terrific day and encouraging you to go out there and learn more about the Pen Friend by visiting www.rnib.org.