Pills

Old people know about pills – the rest of you will find out in time. Trust me.

I take pills in the morning, and again at night – different pills. It all starts sometime in your 30‘s I think. First you decide to take a multi-vitamin pill. Then you discover that you have high blood pressure and your doctor works you through a variety of pills until you find a combination of 2-3 that work. Everybody’s different.

As you age, your multi-colored pill constellation just grows. By the time you're in your 70's, you're probably taking at least a dozen a day. 

My wife keeps up with popular health crazes and I therefore take the pills-du-jour to prevent stuff. I take baby aspirin to hold off the inevitable heart attack. I also take a huge multi-vitamin, an equally huge CoQ-10 (whatever that is) pill, a separate Vitamin D pill, Krill Oil (hey, krill is good enough for blue whales).  I also take an antidepressant (no wonder!), a diuretic (blood pressure), a beta-blocker (blood pressure), Vitamin B-12, a vasodilator (for blood pressure AND my enlarged prostate). There’s probably a couple more I forgot. My wife fills my weekly pill dispensers (I have two), so I don’t have to remember.

In the morning I take most of the pills (7 of them), see photo. I pop ‘em in my mouth all at once and gulp ‘em down with a swallow of whatever is open in the refrigerator. Old people know how to take pills!  You’ll get used to it.