Having a child when I didn't know....

[sirmione16]

... how repeat prescriptions work? I had to ring my mum the other day and ask. I was far too embarrassed to admit to the receptionist and be overheard by everyone in the waiting room. I'm mid twenties with a fiancé mortgage and pregnant. I just feel I should know these things! 

I'm also the user who posted whether to heat leftover spag Bol before making a lasagne or not.

Please someone tell me it's not just me with these issues?! Tell me the most trivial thing you've rang your mum for as an adult!

I have an OK relationship with my mother, but it's always her asking me how to do things that's all.

I can't remember any instance that I have asked her advice or tips.

Slightly off on a tangent but I wouldn't heat up the bolognaise to make a lasagna. Surely it would cool down again when you are assembling and then you heat it again when it goes in the oven?

One good thing about getting older is that I’m less embarrassed about admitting gaps in my knowledge and experience.

A big yes to that.

I have a huge confidence in saying to people " Can you explain that... or I don't understand ..."can you tell me"

Confidence comes with age.

No idea here either.
It seems to vary randomly from surgery to surgery, from medication to medication, and the people within the surgery. I am totally confused and have a review coming up which just seems to mean I cannot order online. They don’t seem to want me to have bp checked or anything. Last time they just looked confused and asked if the doctor had asked me

Well at least you are sensible and ring your mum. And well done to the people who use Google as well.

When working as an emergency operator, I had people say to me 'I don't know who to call, there is a fire'. These are the people in life I really worry about.

Well at least you are sensible and ring your mum

Fine if you have a mother that is sensible.

When my father was having a serious heart attack my mother's call was to the pastor of the church.
She waited 2 hours for him to arrive before he suggested an ambulance.

I text my mum recently asking why we put fruit/veg in the fridge when it's not in the fridge in the supermarket. I'm early 40s 

30s! Not 40s

Im 46 and have been on 2 x repeat prescriptions for the last year, I don't go to the Drs? I just go to the pharmacy and tell them I need more and they give it to me! They just tell me when I need to see Dr for a review

I’m 52 and I don’t know how repeat prescriptions work.

I do know how repeat prescriptions work - or at least how they should work. I'm not convinced my surgery does though.

I think being an adult is losing the embarrassment about asking questions. That 'they're all looking at me, I feel silly' attitude is extremely teenage.

Everybody muddles through and learns as they go. They ask, look things up, seek out knowledegable people or learn by trial and error. Asking questions actually makes you look self-possessed and in charge of your own destiny.

Honestly, independent learning is one of the main goals, if not the main goal, of education. If you can't take responsibility for your own learning as an adult, then education has failed you.

Everything PinkCalluna said but also

Many pharmacies will also take your 'order' and then either collect paper prescriptions from local GPs daily or they will receive them electronically. YOu then pick them up when ready.

My GP doesn't even hand you paper prescriptions in the surgery if you are signed up to a pharmacy, they send them electronically and by the time you have got there it is ready.

Much better than the old days when you took paper to the pharmacy and joined the queue of everyone else who was in the waiting room with you.

I have an app on my phone to request repeat prescriptions - just wish it could jog my memory each time so I don’t forget to actually make the request! Once approved, I just pick up from my local pharmacy. The future is now!

I'm mid thirties, married a decade, 2 kids and have been using my parents as a free advice line for buying our new house. I've already got my mum signed up to come and see it before completion so she can give me her thoughts on furniture placement and colour and call her to ask queries on recipes, childcare/discipline and a myriad other things - so so glad to hear I'm not the only mummy's girl out there!

PS - DH has repeat prescriptions and has set up the annual payment thingy and signed up to Pharmacy 2 U (or whatever it's called). It's brilliant. No more arguments with sodding Boots, the meds just turn up on the doorstep a few days before his previous lot runs out. Love it.

LOL I love that sodding Boots

@Happygummibear Plastic jug - 2 eggs - splash of milk - whisk - microwave for 1 minute - break it up - microwave for 30 more seconds until less 'wet'.

The residual heat cooks the last of the eggs. Boom. Scrambled eggs.

babs I'm trying to get my head around pensions too. I have several small ones and don't understand why they aren't clearer stating whether the projected pension is annual or monthly. I have to keep ringing up to check. And I've only recently realised that maybe they will increase as I work and contribute over the next 25yrs but they don't make the statements idiot proof so I'm not 100% sure if that's right .

@alphabravo ... yup that's how mum does It.... every time I get a rubbery mass..

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I think eggs hate me...

I don’t get how you would t get how they work.
Go to go, fill out repeat form, either collect it in 2-3 days or you can set it up so the repeat goes to the chemist and pick the meds straight up. No need to go back to gp to get the script. If you were ever in the pill you’d know that.

But OP, despite being a little bit sanctimonious upthread, I do know what you mean and did experience a jolt of 'but how can I be a parent until I know... and can explain in simple terms; tides, seasons, weather, the configuration of the solar system etc. Because these are questions every small child will ask and I have to have a ready answer...

But the principle is the same. Take charge of your own learning and you have it in your power to discover anything.