I hate to post about this, because I feel so stupid, but honestly I was just following instructions.
My diabetes educators told me to get a sharps container and showed me how to make one. They said all I had to do was seal the sharps container and put it in the trash.
WRONG!
Now you have to understand a few things. We’re pretty casual about the upstairs trash. We don’t eat food upstairs, so any trash here is paper, coke cans, etc. Nothing that spoils or smells.
Sometimes it can be a month from the time I put something in the trash before it gets downstairs and on the street for pickup. So when I finished my first sharps container, I did as told.
At some point, after that, we got a 5-6 page copied set of instructions on trash and a business card. No note to call, no indication why it was put on the door, I don’t even remember if it was trash day. I thought — oh, the city is putting it on all the doors and thought nothing of it.
Well, husband is out of town, so I took the trash downstairs. We got another one of the mysterious set of instructions. This time, the section on sharps was highlighted (don’t know about last time). So I called and got a very unpleasant woman who jumped all over me for putting sharps in the trash.
Now the set of instructions set that I needed to either take the sharps to the doctor’s office or RHD Medical Center (Hey, I liked it when it was Dedman, and he owned my gym until he died a few months ago, but that’s another blog entry).
Anyway, the number they gave me was the main hospital number who didn’t have a clue.
I called the city back, got the same woman who was even more unpleasant.
And at this point, I haven’t a clue what to do with the sharps. So far, RHD says they don’t do that anymore.
I’m going to ask my doctor in a few hours. Will be back with that answer.
I have a feeling I’ll be using a mail back system or driving them to SouthWest Medical center. Both very unconvenient and probably stressful.