=Smacks Forehead=

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Alice: is given antibiotics to administer to dog.*

Alice: listens to instructions very carefully (or so she thinks).

Alice: reads instructions on packet carefully (or so she thinks).

Alice: administers tablets religiously, twice daily and all is well (or so she thinks).

Alice: is bemused to find 6 days worth of tablets left, as well as the one that she was expecting to find.

Alice: rereads packet, recounts tablets, There are still 6 days worth of tablets left (plus one), and the packet still says the words "for seven days only".

Alice: rings vets, now thoroughly bemused, to ask what on earth is going on and what she should do now.

Receptionist: brings up details on computer, and having checked them, clarifies; has Alice been giving the tablets twice daily?

Alice: assures her that she has been, twice daily without fail.

Receptionist: continues to clarify; has Alice been giving dog TWO tablets, twice daily?

Alice: freezes.

Alice: fetches packet and rereads it aloud over the phone: "TWO tablets to be given twice daily"...

Alice: embarrassed. Alice mortified. Alice has no idea how she missed the word 'two' before the word 'tablets' (or indeed how her brain missed the word 'two' before the word 'tablets' when given the instructions orally).

Receptionist: toddles off to ask vet what on earth she is to say Alice is to do now, given that she has been under-dosing her dog by exactly half for just under a week now.

Receptionist: comes back and tells Alice vet's response: to start giving dog proper amount of tablets as of the next due dose.

Alice: meekly agrees, thanks receptionist and hangs up,

Mother of Alice: upon being told this sad story, all but wets herself laughing.

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=SIGHS=

Alice x

*  two days after being described as utterly fit and not needing any veterinary care whatsoever, Mr. In The Pink sliced his paw open (we presume on a sharp stone in the garden). Yay.