I always say I wish people without chronic illness or disability could just spend one day walking in the shoes of someone with.
I'm Katie. I live in Canberra. I juggle a huge number of various health conditions, including things like hypermobility, laryngopharyngeal reflux, that leads to collapsing airways. I've just had my second knee replacement. Additionally, OCD, autism, ADHD, complex PTSD, and bipolar affective disorder type 2.
I take a drawer full of medications every day. It's probably in the order of about 30 tablets, and of those, 15 are now available with the 60-day prescription scheme. I think the introduction of 60-day prescriptions is game changing because it does empower consumers with far more options.
People with chronic illness have to be so organised in order to not let their illness totally define them. Just dealing with the reminders for the medications is hard enough. For me personally, 60-day prescriptions put more pills in the pocket of someone who is already struggling. It means I always have stock on hand at home, stock on hand in my handbag, stock on hand in my car, and that's just one less thing I need to deal with that I can set and forget.
Being able to have those medications and being able to have the scale or the stock of the medication to organise it in a way that actually serves my life, and that means I get to live my life, really is an empowering and game-changing event.