And I said, "Yes, ma'am I understand, but did you bring your medications with you?," upon which she produced a grocery bag and poured them on the bed. And she must have had 18 or 20 medications, not that she'd stored up over the years but that she was currently taking at this particular moment.

And, I gave up because I tried to catalog them and categorize them as to the type and function of these medications, but she had like four different drugs that would cause diarrhea, three that would cause constipation, two that worked on her high blood pressure, and one that was pulling in the opposite direction.

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