Flushed Down the Toilet

Another story from earlier in the week... so I had to take my mom to the doctor on Monday and when we get there the nurse asks how she is doing and my mom said just terrible - of course the nurse takes a look at me and I have no idea what she is talking about - nice. So when the doctor comes in and my mom says the same thing - again the doctor looks at me and I just shrug. Then we get to hear about the muscle damage - because her doctor in Alhambra said that the cholesterol medication she was on causes muscle damage and that's what she is experiencing (never mind the fact that every doctor she has seen says that isn't the case and they've even run tests to prove it) - the muscle damage is one of my favorites - amazing to me what she fixates on - truly makes me wonder what is going on in her mind - don't want to dwell too much - but I have been hearing about this muscle damage several times a week for years. Anyway... she continues to tell the doctor that she has talked to one of her neighbors and her neighbor has the same problem (great - now all she needs to do is start checking WebMD for symptoms she might have)! So the doctor tells her to stop taking the medication - we'll give it a couple of months and make sure she is feeling better and reevaluate at that time. My mom then says she stopped taking the medication a couple of days ago - I knew something was off with her medication since I had checked the pill boxes before we went to the doctor, but I just figured maybe I had made a mistake. I hadn't seen any medication lying around the house - so I asked her what she had done with the pills and she said - very proudly - that she had flushed them down the toilet! At which point her doctor commended her because "that's how you are suppposed to dispose of medication"! And I'm just sitting there thinking - don't encourage her - pretty soon she won't be taking any of her medication! God bless her!