Happyville

As a former biology major with a focus on more of the environmental than the stuff that would normally inspire in a current healthcare worker (but those classes were too hard and I only have a biology degree because of a prideful insistence on finishing what I started), from about week 3 I knew it wasn't the life for me), I try to be at least somewhat environmentally friendly. That has caveats of course; I can't manage dishwashing, so to preserve basic hygiene I use paper plates and plasticware. I use environmentally sound products as I can, but where I live they aren't as readily available so I'm not fantastic on that either. But I try where I can.

One source of pollution in water is medication. Not only is it excreted by people into the water, people often flush old pills. It's better to mix them in with yucky trash, like coffee grounds or the like. Which I try to do. But I just realized that it was no longer safe for me to have the whole bottle of antidepressants around. I kept the 2 I need tomorrow and dumped all the rest into the sink. (The type of antidepressants I have been on are pretty lethal in overdose. I have lithium which is also dangerous, but having had serious lithium toxicity totally cured me from ever risking that type of overdose because I wouldn't ever want to survive it. That kind of sick is a once in a lifetime event.)

Since I had quite a large supply leftover (I filled the bottle right before the taper and since I accidentally refilled it instead of something else I didn't have a chance to ask Dr. Brain for a script for far fewer pills as I'd intended), it was a lot of medication. So I'm thinking Cow Pastureville is about to feel a bit uplifted......