I had in my hand a bottle of sleep medication that was just filled but the words printed on the label were incorrect.
Instead of saying I needed to take two tablets each night for insomnia and colitis, it said take one.
No big deal really except if I only take one I wake back up in about four hours and cannot get back to sleep.
That spells problems for the next day with my colitis which is in remission. (Too much information, huh? I'm sorry but for anybody who deals with colitis it's a big deal. I've fought long and hard for my stage of remission and am very careful not to upset my body.)
I explained to the girl behind the counter that it needed to say "Take two" because in the future some pharmacist would only give me half of what was required for a month's sleep. I wanted to avoid another battle to get where I am.
She was confused and looked at the computer screen.
"Yeah, it says take two each night," she confirmed.
I checked the bottle.
"I want it to say that on the label," I said, "just in case somebody gets the idea that it's wrong and decides to change the prescription back to just one a night."
She hesitated.
Then she asked for the bottle.
I handed it over, confident that she was then going to retype the label and give me a properly worded one.
She worked behind the counter for a minute.
"Here," she beamed at me. "Will this work?"
I looked at the same bottle of pills with a slightly revised label.
In green pen, she'd written: "Take two tablets!!!"
Okay, then.
I guess we're done here.
