Comments on: Cutting Loose https://livingwithscleroderma.com/cutting-loose/ Reflections on the Messy Complexity of Chronicity Fri, 30 Aug 2024 15:48:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: Evelyn Herwitz https://livingwithscleroderma.com/cutting-loose/#comment-88827 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 15:48:18 +0000 https://livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=10098#comment-88827 In reply to Patricia Osten.

And I couldn’t agree with you more, Patricia! Funny you should mention the Tylenol poisoning, because I was just looking that up the other day in relation to this issue. And I well remember when that happened, and all the hysteria. I appreciate your well-earned cynicism! Be well.

]]> By: Patricia Osten https://livingwithscleroderma.com/cutting-loose/#comment-88825 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 04:25:32 +0000 https://livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=10098#comment-88825 Couldn’t agree more!! But all this protective packaging dates to the Tylenol poisonings 1982. Manufacturers were under pressure to make their packaging tamper resistant – okay – seems reasonable! So, these protective companies started using more (and more and more) rigid materials which demonstrated to these civic minded guys a few more benefits (besides protecting their customers). Specifically, 1) more rigid packaging meant less products damaged in transit = less lost money 2) the cost of all this additional packaging and 3) additional coat of equipment & manpower to install was added to the manufacturing cost which — ta da!! resulted in higher retail prices!! Of course most of the additional costs were of a one time set up etc but let’s not confuse any of this with “”Protecting Our Customers…..Win,win for whom??
Working in an industrial giant served to make me a cynical consumer.

]]> By: Evelyn Herwitz https://livingwithscleroderma.com/cutting-loose/#comment-88817 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 22:05:58 +0000 https://livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=10098#comment-88817 In reply to H J Milligan.

That sounds like quite an ordeal, Heather! And yes, there is SO MUCH medical waste. I’ve been thinking about this especially since Covid. All the masks and protective equipment, necessary but polluting. It’s a huge issue. Agree totally with your assessment.
Take care!

]]> By: H J Milligan https://livingwithscleroderma.com/cutting-loose/#comment-88816 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:46:43 +0000 https://livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=10098#comment-88816 Hello Evelyn.
Wholeheartedly agree with you.
We do try to use as least plastic as we can.
A year ago I was admitted to hospital for the unglamorous problem of a bowel blockage. Got sorted. What overwhelmed me was the use of plastics during my care, ivs etc and due to an overzealous ‘bowel unblocker’ so many ‘adult diapers’. I think all the savings in plastics we had done over the years was used up in that week in hospital.
Best wishes Heather

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