It occurred to me as I was strapping a previously frozen flannel to my ankle with a small pedal bin bag, that my bedside table/drawer has become increasingly bizarre since my diagnosis. I remember way back in the dawn of time, when it was mostly sex-related stuff in there. We will draw a veil over that. 😋 Then later baby paraphernalia took over.
Now it's a cross between a chemist's shop and a Magpies nest. Anything I spot around the house that I think might come in handy for dealing with RA gets bunged in the drawer.
So, it's just me,then, right? 😏
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Hello attatel . Nope. You're not alone. By my bedside are painkillers, sleeping pills, deep heat rub, heating pads, menthol rub, relaxing books and a water bottle and I'm in my early 40s. If I reach 50 God only knows what else will be there. 😊
My bedside cabinet isn't big enough for even half my NHS stuff!! I keep most of it in a large basket in a cupboard in the living room, some in a 1 month pill sorter and the rest I put in a vanity case which I carry around the house with me. The only things near my bed are my nebulizer and my Fentanyl patches.
Yes like Jacqui, half the NHS budget, in medication,dressings for my foot, sticky plasters, , vapour rubs, scissors, tablet cutters and Voltarol.Repeat prescriptions. That's without the other stockpile of daily meds. I keep downstairs.
LOL! I was just trying to sort out my bedside table drawer the other day, and it also contains a rather odd assortment of things, which shall remain nameless at the moment (for fear of major embarrassment)
yes I think we all have bed side draw, mine has medicine, chargers, pill splitter and I also have 2 other baskets with tablets in as there is not enough room to fit it all in. I keep tiding them up and they always seem to fill back up again! also always have a couple bottles of water as always wake up very thirsty.
this post made me laugh. My bedside table is like a pharmacy too.
And in my car I have an old sardine can key (anyone old enough to remember those?!) which I use to turn on the ignition, a curved plastic potato masher which I can hook into the door handle to close it if I've inadvertently opened it too far to reach - or hook round my seat belt to pull it forward on days I can't twist round, a small magnet on a piece of string to dangle down the side of the seat if I drop my keys, a grabber for miscellaneous grabbing - but mainly for my passengers to play with, a rubber topped pencil to prod the radio controls . . . tissues, emergency polos, a small teddy bear (don't know where he came from, but he's cute and good company) etc etc . . . . Beat that for an odd collection! Causes constant amusement for my friends. People that don't know me just look with a strange expression. . .
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