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!

Oops posted too soon (can’t work phones either!). Anyway I pressed the button and the coffee went everywhere because you know, you’re supposed to put a cup under...

my ds1 was 23 last week, I walked him in his pram to the phone box(hey-it was back in the day/i was late to the party wi mobiles)and asked her "see how babies wear hats...well...Is it all the time,like even in their own house"...

oops..i called my ma and asked her...cant work puters either..xI also called the council and demanded to know wtf they were thinking of allowing us to move into a house with bare electrical wire not only on display but poorly attached to a water supply. They sent a clerk of works round who(failed)at explaining some sorta electrical law to me.

sirmione16 It's good not to know how repeat prescriptions work! It means you are healthy! Apart from during pregnancy, repeat prescriptions mean having an ongoing condition, maybe life-long, such as I have to take thyroxine because I had a lump of my thyroid chopped out.
Not knowing something isn't anything to worry about! It only means you haven't done it before and there's nothing wrong with that. I asked my daughter (married one) recently how long you can keep nuts - for baking cakes. I had some elderly ones and was feeling a bit stingy about throwing them away.

I know how repeat prescriptions work (smug) but have no idea how -

to fold letters in the right place so that the address is in the 'window'

to use one of those knife sharpeners that looks like a crossed-over wire

to use the defrost function on my freezer (or what any of the lights at the top mean)

I don't really understand the tyre pressure information for my car. I just guess (and the compressed air thingy at the garage scares me)

I ring my mum for how to make traditional puddings, not fancy versions in cookery books. And if I'm fed up with dh she cheers me up

Life is complex. You can’t know everything. Better to ask. I do.

I had to ring my mum once in my mid-20's to ask how to boil an egg. I could cook a 3 course meal by that age but I'm allergic to eggs so had no idea how to boil one for my friend's child who'd specifically requested "boiley egg and shoulders" for her tea.

I never ask my mum how to do anything but all my family and in laws phone me to help them with stuff. It’s shit being the designated keeper of knowledge for the family.

I'm in my 30's and find myself often calling my parents with questions or for advice. I hope that one day my children will call me with questions and seeking advice. I hope one day I will be wise enough to advise.

I worked with a young girl years ago (before the days of mobile phones and internet) who had recently left home and was cooking a meal to impress her new boyfriend. She couldn't get hold of her mum or gran so she dialled 100 (BT operator services) to ask how long to cook the chicken.

To be fair on the operator she talked her through it all and the meal was a success!

The only stupid question is the question that isn't asked. Don't ever feel silly if you don't know something, and as someone said before if you've never done something before how would you know about it. I used to get paranoid when I worked at a company that did electronics and the people used to treat me as if I was stupid as I didn't know the names of the components they used and what they did, now I wish I'd stuck up for myself, why should I know something like that, it's not important in my life! I know deep down that I'm not stupid but I know how you feel x

Surely you'd assemble the cooked cold Bolognese into the lasagne then put it in th oven to heat right through and cook the sauce and pasta? No need to heat the meat then put it in the dish etc.

ChanklyBore - I hear you. My parents abandoned me and I never got replacements. It's shit .

Flyingpompoms you criticised posters for putting people down then did exactly that in your next paragraph .

If you have never needed them or needed to know how could you possibly?

Don't be embarrassed!

I have spent far too much of my life having to know how they work and chasing them up/sorting them out. I kind of wish I had never had to encounter them to be honest lol :)

There isn't just one way that repeat prescriptions work, so unless your mum goes to the same surgery the answer given is just guess work.

We can no longer have the pharmacy request/manage our repeat prescriptions for us in fact - this was sold as some sort of improvement at our surgery but I'm still trying to work out how it's better that we have to personally request prescriptions.

I’m 51 and when I had toothache a few weeks ago I phoned my mum to ask her about emergency out of hours dentists. In fairness, she didn’t know either. My sister did though, but then she knows more than Google

I'm 48 and I ask my mum (82) for advice on cooking/baking and major house-related purchases as I fancy her advice over my DH's. I even sometimes take her advice on clothes purchases, although there have been a few misses on that front (the purple faux leather trouser suit springs to mind). I ask my Dad's advice on anything to do with the car, or the working of the washing machine etc. He usually can't help as the cars have changed so much since his day. I could manage without my parents' advice, but while I still have them, it's nice to share knowledge like this, it's really just a way to have a conversation with them.

I think it is lovely if people think to ask their mum/dad/friend etc before google. It's good to talk!

My dd is thirty three, married/mortgage/a dc still phones me at least three times asking about something or other, if I still had my parents I’m sure I would be still doing the same as dd, I love that she asks for advice still, she might be all grown up but she is still my child.

My 21 year old daughter never gives anyone a card unless she sees them in person. When I asked her why she hadn’t sent her Grandpa a birthday card she said it was because she has no idea how to address/post a letter!!!

The green side of your prescription is the actual prescription, that's the bit the pharmacy will take. If you have a repeat, any medications on your repeat will be listed on the white side. You keep that, then next time you need a repeat, you tick the things you need and post it in the box at your GP reception. The white bit tells you how many repeats you have left before you have to see your GP to get it renewed, mine are monthly for 12 months.

Your surgery will tell you how many days you have to wait, mine takes two working days to prepare a prescription so I normally put it in 3-4 days before I'm going to need it. You can't do it too early or they will refuse it. You then go back to the doctor, collect the prescription from reception and take it to the chemist. Some doctors will send it directly to the chemist, mine won't unless you have a reason to do so. Some chemists will collect from the doctor for you, you have to set this up directly with them.

My GP has just brought in an online order system so I can just log in and request it online, so much easier.

You're not alone. My husband doesn't know how repeat prescriptions work (he's the only one who has them), what happens is when he is about a week away from running out of drugs, I write a note to the surgery which he delivers. Then by next weekend they have sent it electronically to local pharmacist.

My prescriptions dont have a green side.

No wonder people can’t figure them out if we can’t even agree on the colour!

seriously?? Can't you just Google your daft questions?