Come get your Medicine!

When I was in the cuckoo's nest, every night at around 7-8 o'clock, we all line up in a file waiting for our evening pills.

Sometimes, the patients would become so impatient that they would go knock on the window to see whether the meds are ready to go.

When the window for the meds is open, all of us the cuckoos would come flying forming a single file waiting patiently for our meds.

Such degree of enthusiasm doesn't really match up with what is depicted in one flew over Cuckoo's nest.

For me, in general, the hallucinations and delusions often start to come out and play at around after the dinner time (also depending on the day). This is the reason why, I bet, some patients are very impatient about the time of the delivery for the meds they take to control the symptoms.

In addition, granted, there were also non-smokers who really want to get out simply to breathe some fresh air. For the smokers like me, we know that, after we take our meds, we will be able to go out for our fresh air-- smoking time, and, we would have to wait for a longer time if our fellow cuckoos, who intend to go out, be sort of slow in taking their meds.

As a result, we sort of formed a fresh-air-group-monitoring system--- some of the patients in the day room would kept on watching, voluntarily and impatiently for the window towards the meds to open, once it is open, we will make sure we get all the fresh-air groupers to come out and take their meds-- regardless which room they are in...

"Come get your Medicine!!" Patients would so demand the other patients... lol 8-O