Wonder if it’s a one month or three month prescription?
She has no way to tell whether she will still love him after she gets off her mood-altering drugs.
Birth control prescription, perhaps?
A 51st way to leave your lover?
I see this as a breakup statement. It’s not unusual for couples where one partner has to support another partner through a crisis (say, a long bout with a medical condition) to end up divorced afterward. During the medical crisis, one partner takes the lead and the other, weaker, partner has to follow that lead. After the crisis, it can be hard to find a new equilibrium.
Those of us who can only tell what day it is by the number of pills we’re supposed to take understand this. Prescriptions are for a term, and she wants to stay with him at least that long. I hope it is three months, not one, and is renewable.
Gotta love Mark H‘s answer.
@ Boise Ed (6) – If it was that good, then I must not have understood Mark’s comment @1. Would either of you care to explain it?
When the character says “… the rest of my …”, before she gets to the noun, the reader is thinking “life” or “forever” or something in that vein. Mark’s “1 month or 3 months” sticks a knife in that.
@ Boise Ed (8) – Thanks. I had understood that part; what I had feared was that “one month” or “three months” was supposed to associate with some particular kind of medication (similar to the way that “four hours” has become notoriously linked to a certain blue pill).
Hah! Not that I know of. It’s probably not coincidence that my local drugstore branch dispenses one-month packages and my Medicare supplement insurer has its own drugs-by-mail service that dispenses three-month packages.
That was also my association to the three-month idea.
Scott (5) – Every Saturday night after night after our “take in Chinese food substitute for dinner out” and before our “Saturday night date night movie on TV” I wash the dishes and then lay out our pills for the week.
We have day of the week boxes – one each for bedroom for am pills, one each for kitchen for lunch and dinner pills, also in the kitchen one for husband for bedtime pills.
(And a different set of weekly boxes which let us take out a day’s worth of pills for both us in one divided box for when we are traveling.)
As you probably know – the worst thing is when one finds yesterday’s pills still in their box waiting to be taken.
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Wonder if it’s a one month or three month prescription?
She has no way to tell whether she will still love him after she gets off her mood-altering drugs.
Birth control prescription, perhaps?
A 51st way to leave your lover?
I see this as a breakup statement. It’s not unusual for couples where one partner has to support another partner through a crisis (say, a long bout with a medical condition) to end up divorced afterward. During the medical crisis, one partner takes the lead and the other, weaker, partner has to follow that lead. After the crisis, it can be hard to find a new equilibrium.
Those of us who can only tell what day it is by the number of pills we’re supposed to take understand this. Prescriptions are for a term, and she wants to stay with him at least that long. I hope it is three months, not one, and is renewable.
Gotta love Mark H‘s answer.
@ Boise Ed (6) – If it was that good, then I must not have understood Mark’s comment @1. Would either of you care to explain it?
When the character says “… the rest of my …”, before she gets to the noun, the reader is thinking “life” or “forever” or something in that vein. Mark’s “1 month or 3 months” sticks a knife in that.
@ Boise Ed (8) – Thanks. I had understood that part; what I had feared was that “one month” or “three months” was supposed to associate with some particular kind of medication (similar to the way that “four hours” has become notoriously linked to a certain blue pill).
Hah! Not that I know of. It’s probably not coincidence that my local drugstore branch dispenses one-month packages and my Medicare supplement insurer has its own drugs-by-mail service that dispenses three-month packages.
That was also my association to the three-month idea.
Scott (5) – Every Saturday night after night after our “take in Chinese food substitute for dinner out” and before our “Saturday night date night movie on TV” I wash the dishes and then lay out our pills for the week.
We have day of the week boxes – one each for bedroom for am pills, one each for kitchen for lunch and dinner pills, also in the kitchen one for husband for bedtime pills.
(And a different set of weekly boxes which let us take out a day’s worth of pills for both us in one divided box for when we are traveling.)
As you probably know – the worst thing is when one finds yesterday’s pills still in their box waiting to be taken.