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A couple of suggestions for bubble packed pills or pills in hard to open bottles. Get someone to help you transfer them into a container that is easily opened and closed. (Be sure and label it.) Ask your pharmacist put the pills in an easily opened container. I'll bet he or she would even do it for over the counter medication! > ---------- > From: Alf Cousins[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 7:27 PM > Subject: Re: Opening things > > Marjorie, > I hope the day got better for you..... Here's a suggestion for opening > cartons, I stole it from a kid in the local supermarket who spends all day > ripping them open. Use one of those craft knives with a retractable blade, > have the blade retracted so that just enough shows to penetrate the > thickness of the carton (it helps to tape it there if it doesn't have a > locking device) Now you can slash at the carton with no fear of damaging > the > contents and with minimal risk to yourself. > I don't know what the compromise is on packaging. We just had a couple of > scares here with blackmailers putting strychnine in panadol(headache) > capsules. Now how do you do that without leaving a trace? And the > company's > response, understandably, is to make the product tamper proof, for which, > read harder to get into! But I guess I'd rather struggle than die. I have > some Enada tablets in a tamper proof pack and they cause me severe > aggravation every morning, and I don't have a real problem with dexterity. > When the blister finally pops it's anybody's guess which way the tablet > will > go, and it doesn't help to have a deep pile carpet in the bedroom! > regards > Alf >