My daughter takes medication twice a day. One of the beneficial side effects of this med is that it makes her sleepy and since she started on it, she has been sleeping really well, 10-12 hours a night. Unfortunately one of the negative side effects of this med is that it makes her sleepy and her morning dose, which is half of her bedtime dose, leaves her zombie-like for several hours during waking hours.
A few days ago she had the brilliant idea that I should give her the morning pill early in the morning, when she would normally sleep a few more hours. This is not a problem for me since I am typically up two or more hours before the kids get up anyway.
The pill that she takes is teensy tiny, slightly bigger than a pinhead, and when you cut it in half, you almost have to carry it with tweezers. That first morning I woke her up to give her the med, she put out her palm to take it. Instead of putting it there though, I put it on her thumb and than manually brought her index finger down on top of it, making sure she had a firm grasp of it before I let go. I know from having been a nurse for several years that if you put a pill into the flat palm of a person who is lying down in bed, they will almost always lose it when they tilt their hand towards their mouth to take it. Every morning I put the pill on her thumb even though she offers me her palm when I wake her.
Last night my daughter asked me why I give her the a.m. pill the way I do and I demonstrated how you can lose the pill from a flat palm when you are lying down. I saw a light bulb go on in her brain.
So this morning when I woke her, she almost reflexively jerked her arm out from under the covers, her thumb and index finger already in the shape of a U. It made me laugh out loud
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