Things which are hard: unpredictable (bad) side effects from things which should be innocuous.
Things which are hard: unpredictable (bad) side effects from things which should be innocuous. Things which are harder: people feeling so badly that they lash out at someone trying to help them. Illness of sufficient nastiness can mess anyone up mentally and emotionally, or even actively change their mental and emotional state, even if it's only temporary. The doctor said to use something to treat the side effects of something else, and the pharmacist said it was not something that should have caused any problems, but the minute my dad took it, it made him sick. Of course, he's been resisting taking more and more things until he is so miserable he kind of gives up. Which means my mom is frequently put in the position of having to encourage him to try to take things. Which she really does try not to do very often. Thing is, my dad finally took the something in question, completely outside of anyone saying anything to him, promptly got sick, and told my mom it was her fault for...