November 4: Pills, Pills, Pills

Your character takes (or at least, is supposed to take) medication regularly. What do they take and describe how they go about getting their meds. Is the prescription on auto-renewal? Are they delivered in the mail? Or are they more inclined to forget until the very last day and send their doctor a panicked email?

"She skips lunch because she has to visit Dr. Tracy to renew her Serzone. He asks her several questions that she correctly answers, and he writes out the prescription. She feels relieved, as her supply seems dangerously low, and is glad to have the prescription overlap by several weeks instead of four days. She worries about unforeseen events like the doctor suddenly having to be out of town, leaving her short. She also renews her birth control pills, which she takes not especially for birth control but more for her period, which in the past has been uncomfortably nonperiodic."

(Shopgirl*, Steve Martin)

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