"Mommyproof"

I know that certain things need to be childproof. But, sometimes I have to wonder if instead of testing these things on children, they use adults instead. It is like they are trying to keep us out as well!! Sometimes I have such a hard time just trying to open the Cascade bottle for the dishwasher, or even the lid on a jar of spaghetti sauce. Maybe I just need to work on my “mommy muscles”.


Every day I need to give Luke 6mL (total) of medicine to help the acid in his stomach, 3mL at night and 3 mL in the morning. I never had a problem with the medicine bottles in the past 8 months that he has been on this medicine. But, a few weeks ago…on a morning where we were going to have to go to therapy, I could not get the stupid lid off the medicine bottle. Childproof lids…uurrrggg!! I felt like a complete idiot…but I tried and tried…and could not get the lid to catch when I pushed down on the cap!! It was a bottle that we had been using for about a week and a half already…so I knew it had been working. I couldn’t figure it out.

I knew Luke really needed his medicine, if he doesn’t get it you can tell he is uncomfortable or in pain. Knowing this I knew I needed to figure something out as quickly as possible, so he could still get his morning dose. So we left early for therapy and went to Wal-Mart where we got his prescription filled. I told the ladies at the pharmacy my problem, and they were sympathetic. Of course one of the ladies was able to get the lid off without much difficulty!! Boy…did I feel silly!! Then they asked if the medicine was kept out of the reach of children…if so they would give me a “regular” cap…so I wouldn’t have to worry about the childproof stuff. I was grateful, but also felt so dumb….after all it is supposed to be “childproof” not “mommyproof”, right? Oh well….we survived and they gave me the “idiotproof” lid. It worked…I was happy…we didn’t even need to break the bottle or anything to get it fixed.

You’ll be happy to know that we had Luke’s prescription filled again last week and so far it hasn’t been “mommyproof”.