Meds-keeping track

[Bill]

Hi everyone! I might have a little organizational tip for keeping track of meds. and dosages, I don't know. Hopefully, it may help some. My wife, Nicola, was on many different medications, and was being switched from oxycodone over to methadone for pain control. It was very difficult/impossible to keep track of everything with the pill-keepers and relying solely on memory. We always kept a daily journal of events and meds. I started using colored pencils to differentiate the meds. she got, so that, at a glance, it was much easier to keep track of. Nausea meds (several types) were a green pencil. Chemo (Xeloda or Tykerb) were a blue pencil. Pain meds. were red. This was critical as she was switching from oxycodone over to methadone. She had to take something almost every two hours, around the clock, for weeks, so the color-coding really helped me to keep everything straight.