So I’d specifically made sure I only had two boxes of painkillers this time – one ibuprofen and one paracetamol, a drink so I could take it immediately, Strepsils and Calpol.
That means that a box would last my husband and I one day if we had two pills four times a day.
I would love to be able to stay in bed and bunker down for a week, but I’m not allowed to ‘stockpile’ medicine – and anything more than two items is deemed unsafe.
I put back my husband’s medicine, necked mine with a drink bought in store and carried on to every supermarket and pharmacy I could walk to.
I could buy 10 litres if I wanted to, with a crate of wine on the side, which I feel would be far more unsafe.
