Accidentally swallowed 6500 mg. Cipro yesterday; had been prescribed the day before for a bladder infection. Spent yesterday in the ER with him as they kept him under observation after giving him a charcoal suspension to drink. Second time something like this has happened; first time it was Lomotil. Have come up with a plan to keep it from happening again.
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Omigosh, Leeny. I hope he's ok.
Posted 1 year ago by HuddysMama #
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Wow, Leeny! Sending prayers and positive thoughts to you.
Posted 1 year ago by SylvesterMiasMomma #
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Leeny, would it work to just set out Mr. Leeny's pills for one day at a time and lock all of the others away?
Bless your heart - you have sure been through it lately. Praying that all will be well.
Posted 1 year ago by WillowandWindismom #
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WWM, I was going to suggest the same thing with an addition that as far as possible have his Rx's written for the longest extended dosage as possible. 1 per day pills preferred, twice per day and then 4-6 hr types only if unavailable in extended dosage.
Posted 1 year ago by ailuromaniac #
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He'll be fine; he's just recovering from passing all the charcoal he had to drink (it produces a large amount of black diarrhea to get the stomach contents out of the body after binding them to prevent absorption). He says he feels "like h*** warmed over," though I told him that the expression is "death warmed over" and that h*** is hot enough without being rewarmed.
I used to put Mr. Leeny's pills in one of those weekly pill organizers, with a row of compartments for each day of the week and a compartment for each time of day. For some reason, he wasn't able to get the pills from the compartments into his mouth. More of them ended up on the floor or in the couch than in his body. I now divide his daily pills among four empty pill bottles that have the labels removed and color-coded stars placed on the lids indicating the time of day when the pills should be taken. A day's worth of pill bottles are then sealed in a Ziploc sandwich bag. Mr. Leeny then "drinks" the pills out of the bottles to get them into his mouth without dropping them.
Because the Cipro was not a maintenance medication, and because he takes his maintenance meds erratically (sometimes the morning pills are taken at 3 PM and the night pills are taken at 6 the next morning), I did not put the Cipro in the daily pill bottles. Apparently Mr. Leeny was about to take his morning Cipro dose and had the open vial in his hand when, according to him, he became intensely interested in the umpteenth rerun of "The Golden Girls" that he was watching on TV. He forgot which vial he was holding and automatically drank the pills like he drinks his maintenance meds.
The GP said to wait a day or two to be sure Mr. Leeny has recovered from this mishap; then the doctor will give him more antibiotics for the bladder infection. From now on, any special medications that are dispensed in a pill bottle will go into a fifth empty bottle that will contain only one day's dose of that medication. A special sticker that distinguishes it from the maintenance meds will be placed on the lid, and a label identifying the drug and the dosage will be placed on the bottle. If we had been doing this yesterday, Mr. Leeny would have swallowed only 2 Cipro instead of 13.
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Leeny, bless you for all you do to care for Mr.Leeny, and even though it may sound lame, I can understand how this was an accident..Just last week I was watching an episode of StarGate for the umpteenth time and accidently grabbed a hot pepper off the table in front of me (I can't eat hot peppers) instead of a mozzarella stick..
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2bp, I know it was an accident. This happened last January with a bottle of Lomotil. He had to go to the hospital in an ambulance that time because it happened in the middle of the night after I had been double-scoped that day. Even though I was conscious during the procedure, I would still have been considered DUI if I had driven within 24 hours after receiving the anesthesia. It was best for him to go in the ambulance anyway. He told me that they turned on the lights and siren a couple blocks away from the house, so his vital signs must have become erratic. He had a difficult time getting into the ambulance because he was dizzy (he thought he could walk so they didn't put him on a stretcher). They admitted him to the hospital and kept him under observation for 48 hours that time.
That was when I started putting the day's pills in a Ziploc bag.
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Oh Leeny - I am so sorry, sweetie! You really don't need all this trouble right now. I don't blame you - I wouldn't want to go home either! Sending loads of hugs and positive energy to both you and Mr Leeny! {{{HUGS}}}
Posted 1 year ago by Rubia in CA, 4/28 #
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Leeny...I wish I could go home with you tonight. I wish I could help you in some way. You surpass all I know who manage to cope with the un-copable (not word..I know). You're incredibly special and I know you have your limits. I hope it doesn't lose it's meaning when repeated so very often...but I'm praying for you and Mr. Leeny and hope you can remain as strong as you have through the years. You're a hero in my eyes...and no doubt in God's Eyes as well. I know it's true in Mr. Leeny's eyes as well. {{{Hugs}}}
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The plumbers have been to the duplex, and they fixed and old problem that has recurred--roots in the pipes. Turns out that our dirty water was backing up into the other unit, which is a sure sign of a blockage in the field. Being relative newcomers (I've lived there for 12 years), they didn't know what was causing it and thought they had done something to mess up the works. As soon as Mr. Leeny called and told me this, I asked to speak to the plumber, who told me that, indeed, roots had come up when he snaked out the pipes.
Several years ago, my landlord replaced all the pipes in the field after a major sewage flood that drove us and our neighbors at the time out of our homes and required the landlord to rip up the carpet in the other unit and wash everything down with bleach. Fortunately, there's some stuff that can be put into the system periodically that will kill the roots. It costs about $25 for a big jar of it. I just left a message with my landlord telling him all this.
Now I can go home tonight.
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((Leeny))
Posted 1 year ago by HuddysMama #
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Whew, what a day - more {{hugs}} from me.
Posted 1 year ago by MadcatwomanintheUK #
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Sending a big hug to you Leeny. What that doesn't kill us makes us stronger...yeah but we sure don't need all of the issues that come up. You have an amazing persistance and patience to continuously deal with Mr. Leeny and other issues.
Posted 1 year ago by SylvesterMiasMomma #
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{{{HUGS}}}
Posted 1 year ago by Sheba's Mom in Phoenix, AZ 10/8 #
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Do something special for yourself, Leeny. Send yourself flowers or invite a friend to eat lunch at a favorite restaurant. You need to feed your spirit to keep going with all these challenges! {{{hugs}}}
Posted 1 year ago by Kitten Whisperer #
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Be so very careful with the meds, Leeny. A former co-worker of mine's first husband suffered from dementia. She was very careful to lock up all his meds, but he went rifling through a sock drawer in a storage room one day while she was at work and found a 12-year-old bottle of narcotic painkiller tabs and swallowed them. Fortunately, there were only a couple left in the bottle, but there was still hell to pay, and not from the medical staff.
My co-worker's husband had been verbally and emotionally abusive throughout the marriage, but she was "old country folk," and I really believe that she stayed married to him for decades because she thought all men acted that way. The rest of his family was no better; in the hospital, his brother accused her of negligence in her husband's care. Adult Protective Services got involved, and she was eventually cleared, but not without a lot of stress and strain.
When it was all over, she told her brother-in-law that if she didn't like the care she was providing, he could take over. She put him in a home, divorced him, got him off her health care coverage, and married a man who treats her like a queen.
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Oh Leeny, you are incredible. Huge hugs to you. What an amazing person. You have such patience and are so kind and caring. I hope that you have a better day tomorrow. Take care of yourself and keep us updated on how things are going. Hopefully the landlord will get on the toilet issue and Mr. Leeny will start to feel better soon. It sounds like the new organization plan will help a lot.
Posted 1 year ago by ginirosaru #
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