"This Will Just be a Little Stick" (Accutane Report)

See this attractive and puzzling symbol?  You have to tear off a little slip of cardboard with this graphic on it to get every single Accutane pill out of the blister pack. Lily is not so great in the throwing away trash department, and somehow I have these little banned pregnant women all over my house. Sort of like perverse confetti.

I'm a smart enough cookie, and I'm not entirely sure that the meaning of this international symbol is particularly clear. It looks like a symbol to prevent pregnancy, not to tell pregnant women not to take this particular drug. Instead, I'd read it as, "I'm pregnant. I don't want to be. Better take Accutane."

Lily had to have her one-month blood test today (she had the baseline one before starting Accutane). I can see that the medicine is blessedly working. Her skin is drying up. She even has eyebrow dandruff (and asked me what to do about it -- brush her eyebrows maybe?). We have so much hope riding on this medicine. So far, so good. My regular pharmacist has passed the pharmacist iPledge test and has the Accutane in stock, so we should be able to refill the prescription next week without all the aggravation and drama we had last  time.

Lily isn't crazy about getting her blood drawn but she so wants her skin to clear up that she doesn't even complain (much). This morning the lab technician who was drawing the blood assured her that "this will only be a little stick." (Can they say anything else?)

Then she had to get a different needle. Lily didn't watch the proceedings but was fine. She told the technician that she doesn't like needles.

The technician, who draws blood all day every day for this lab company, said, "I can't stand needles. I haven't been to the doctor in eight years because I'm afraid they'll want a blood sample."

I'm speechless.

Comments

[Angry]

I'm confused... that's the international symbol for 'Naked Woman Holding a Basketball'... what's it doing on a pack of Accutane? Oh hang on, I get it, one must put the basketball down in order not to pop the wrong pill.

I don't see your problem, Anne, it makes perfect sense to me.

Cheers.

[lastminute deutschland]

Then she had to get a different needle. Lily didn't watch the proceedings but was fine. She told the technician that she doesn't like needles.