Found out dad has been selectively skipping/dumping his meds when he didn’t feel like taking them, namely from the 22 blood thinner injectors he had hidden away (he gets 7 every week) instead of taking them. Once I took all his meds away from him, wrote up a schedule, and then tried to give him his evening meds he started complaining about making him take stuff he didn’t want to take.

He went into the Hospital overnight on Friday to remove a blood clot from his left leg, they failed, they could not get it out. Last time this happened was when they first put him on the blood thinner and the clot dissolved on it’s own. His doctors thought that he was taking it every day…whoops, nope, he has been stashing them instead of taking them because he says they make him feel “tired.” (sure, sure, it is the blood thinners, not the chemo, not the heart meds, not the diuretic, not any of the other 11 drugs he takes every day, and he knows it is the thinner because?)

I guess I have to institute prison ward dispensary mode now, I have to actually see him take it and then perhaps even check under his tongue afterward…the five daily injections for the insulin and blood thinner I will be giving myself, no need to check.

Oh well, I called a couple of his doctors, one more to call in the morning, basically to say “he will not take your prescription, no I don’t exactly know why, he wont talk to me except to yell at me about trying to make him drugs he doesn’t want…”

If he is not going to take some things the least I can do is get them off of his prescription record so his other doctors don’t think he is taking them and prescribing around them…

You would not believe how close I am to just saying “fuck-it” and going backpacking through Brazil or something else equally pointless but personally interesting. (I wont, it would mean letting my brother put Dad into a home.)