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The other night when I laid down to go to sleep, I had what felt like acid reflux. It bothered me... so I decided to take some of Abi Kitty's left over Pepto Bismol to see if it will take it away long enough for me to fall asleep.

I went to the kitchen... got the step stool, grabbed the spatula outta the dish drainer. Good thing the cupboard door where the Pepto was open, because I would have had even a harder time opening it, the doors stick. I took the spatula and some how made the Pepto fall out of the cupboard.
 
Next... solution...
 
I tried my hardest to open the darn bottle, stupid safety squeeze cap. I squeezed and turned and turned and squeezed until my hard became red and skin was starting to peel off.
 
Soo... bright idea struck me. Not one of my better ideas LOL!
 
I laid the cap end of the bottom on the counter with the bottle hanging off, then I took my good elbow, the one without the screws poking out of it, and pressed down on the squeeze part of the cap and then with my left hand turned the whole bottle.
 
and
 
VOILA! The cap was off and I could take my 2 big swigs of Pepto.
 
I did realize while going back to sleep... that if the bottle had been full or even a little more than it had in it, that I would have been in the kitchen cleaning up a nice pretty pink mess outta the floor. I did not even think about, if it might pour out if it had to much in it.
 
Soo... another night, without having to wake up hubby to open something for me or just going without.
Get the chewable tablets. Then you just gotta be able to rip them with your teeth if your hands don't work. I know if my hands swell i will not be able to get my meds out of the medicine tray, it is hard already to open.I was taking son's chewy pepto, but I ran out and did not think to get more of it, because it has went away for a week or so.
 
I like the taste of pepto bismol. It kinda reminds me of when I would take the pink bubble gum flavor anti-biotic. I LOVED that stuff! I was always soo happy to hear I had tonsilitis... because that meant... I got the good tasting antibiotic. Whoo hooo!
Ok... I was just reading about Linky-Doodles problem with opening her pill bottle last night. I thought about suggesting what Milly did, but ya know... some times my ideas are not good ones.
 
Anyways...
 
Last week when I got my meds from the pharmacy, I was severely pissed off. I was just so ticked off, that when I got in the house, I just blew. I had my one bottle of pain meds in my right hand. They were still in the paper bag from the pharmacy and I just slammed them down on the ground a few feet in front of me and left them there for hubby to pick up and put with my other arsenal of meds.
 
He came into the room and opened the bag to find that I had busted the pill bottle and crushed 3 of my darvocets to the point they had to be flushed down the toilet.
 
Soo... now I know if I ever really need a pill bottle opened and no one else around and I get REALLY pissed off like I did last week... that I can just always slam the bottle on the floor and bust it open.
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