I find such things inordinately simple. I wake, stretch, urinate, go take my vitamins and drink two glasses of water. A third follows me to my current home office, where I process emails, alerts, whatever may be.
I find the best time to triage overnight emails is when I'm not quite awake yet to realise I'm doing it. Less pain that way.
The key is it being part of a routine, and the easiest is a part of the wake routine. At least for me. Which is why I find human variance interesting.
Meanwhile scheduling something 6+ months out (a doctor's appointment, or maybe at a pharmacy) for a shot is quite difficult to keep on time. I have to schedule, I have to keep free, I have to keep it in my mental space (calendars on phones help, but still...).
I literally don't know what part of the planet I will be on in a week. How on Earth could I know where to schedule such a thing, months or even weeks in advance?
Yet I bet for the parent poster, scheduling things like this is a breeze. Wild. Totally incomprehensible for me, as maybe it being easy for me to daily schedule is for them?
Do you have kids, if so how do you deal with frequent disruptions to the morning routine? Do you not have days where you just need to get up and go e.g. to catch a flight, get to a meeting, take a kid to school, or because you stayed up late and got drunk, etc... and taking vitamins took a back seat?
The meds are always next to bed, and a pouch with meds for when I travel, plus a set of them in my backpack in case I sleep out of home.
When I was in a relationship and we lived separately, I had two sets - one on my place, another in my gf’s place.
It’s a bit like “how do you manage to brush your teeth daily if you have a chaotic routine”.
No kids. I do have emergency paging and downed server / PROD to deal with 24/7, not the same as kids, but wake-disrupting all the same.
There is rarely something urgent enough to prevent urinating in the morning, and being thirsty after waking up is typcially a no go either. If prod is down maybe I'll eval first, but humans need out and in of water. I'm not going to urinate on the floor, and I'm not going to sit dehydrated and parched mouth for long either.
So wake, urinate, drink and vitamins are in that too.
My vitamins are in the bathroom, and it takes less than 10 seconds to consume them.
This is crazy. You deal with the morning routine by taking your pills when the alarm goes off, because there's nothing the kids can be doing that won't wait for that.
Flying, driving, and driving are exactly the same. Take your pill when the alarm goes off.
If you drank so much that it rendered you unconscious through the time you needed to take your pill, the solution is "don't do that". That's not exactly an unavoidable necessity of life.
