you need to discuss this with the doc without them around, i really hate
saying that but if you want them healthy, and if you want to not be blamed
for a health issue not of your making you are going to have to get some
rules set out, Lee
"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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> "Storrmmee" > wrote in message
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>> get used to it, she is facing losing control and will fight you even when
>> you are right, and given the combative nature of your family dynamics it
>> might even be worse... Lee
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> Yes. Both of my parents are very combative. We got into a fight tonight
> over Metformin. They told my mom she had to bring his from home because
> they didn't have that high of a dose in the pharmacy. Which I thought was
> odd because he could take more than one pill. But when his dinner came
> she insisted he have his one pill for his gallbladder or maybe it's the
> pancreas. I don't remember but he gets really sick to his stomach without
> it.
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> She said she didn't know when he takes his Metformin and wasn't going to
> worry about it. I told her it was usually taken with dinner. Then she
> snapped that it didn't matter when *I* took it. I told her this was in
> the prescribing information to take it always with meals. So she asked
> the nurse who didn't really know and said maybe he gets it at bedtime?
> Part of the problem is that my mom said he has always been responsible for
> his own meds and she doesn't know when he takes them. This whole thing
> could have easily been solved by looking at the prescription bottle. But
> after being told to shut up once by her and twice by him and also being
> told to leave by him (which I did not because he would have been alone in
> the room), I wasn't about to argue any more.
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