Why Do I Forget?

I don’t have a regular schedule for my days. Some times I have to get up early and drive far away to teach an early morning class. Sometimes I have only an evening class so I do work around home all day and go to my class late in the afternoon. I am using this lack of regular schedule as my excuse why sometimes I forget to do what I need to do everyday.

I have a lot of medicines and supplements that I have to take four times a day. They are complicated enough that I have to use these four compartment pill containers. I have no trouble remembering to take the ones I have to take right when I wake up. They must be taken on an empty stomach and I am not allowed to eat for at least 30 minutes after taking them.

That is the only thing I ever get right in my day. My second round of pills comes after eating breakfast. I usually remember those, but sometimes not until a few hours after breakfast, which technically is still after breakfast.

The third round is after dinner. Well I am no good at remembering those. Today I left home at 1:30 to go teach in Pinehurst. I remembered to put my pill case in my purse. I taught Mah Jongg from 4-8:30. I forgot to take my pills. I drove home. I still did not take my pills. I was home a whole hour and then I remembered, “My Pills…in my purse.” So I took them, but I still have a fourth group of pills to take right before bed.

I really want to go to sleep, but need a little separation between groups of pills. How much time? Who knows. I just wish I could remember to take my pills right after dinner. It’s not like I don’t do this every single damn day.

I can remember to give Shay her heart worm or her arthritis medicine, but I can’t remember my own. The whole reason I have my pills in these little containers is that I can confirm if I actually took my pills. I am not that old and am having this much trouble. What is going to happen when I really get old?