My Medicine Cabinet

You got it!  My medicine cabinet is super organized and when you are blind, it makes it even more vital for things to be organized.  I have specific spots for specific things; pills on one shelf, liquids on another, and other things on another.

 

When I had sufficient vision, things were still well organized and I used to use color of bottles and boxes to help me identify but now that my vision is so bad, I use labels to help me.  Or, I use shapes and sizes of bottles and boxes to help me navigate.  Everything is carefully placed.  Liquids by themselves and pills far away in another spot.  My sense of smell also helps to make things easy and smooth running.  Yes, sometimes when I am not sure of what a liquid is, I sniff it in its bottle.  You would even be surprised to know that some pills have a unique smell.

 

If things are well organized then everything is great but if anything either falls out of place or is moved around on me by someone else, then all hell breaks loose!  I label things either with Braille labels or by placing one of those label dots or squares on the bottle or box.  This latter way of labeling is done through a product called the Pen Friend; a product that was developed in Britain some time last year.  It is a lot cheaper than its competitor the bar code reader and if you would like to learn more about it you can visit www.rnib.org.

 

I'm Donna J. Jodhan your friendly accessibility advocate wishing you a terrific day and encouraging you to go out there and tell the rest of the world how blind persons navigate their medicine cabinets.