The Wrong Meds

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While I was in the hospital I was given the wrong meds. The nurses come around at intervals and give the patients their meds. They click your wrist band, click on each med and enter it into the system. At bedtime I take Remeron which is a anti-depressant and it helps me to sleep. The nurse scanned as usual and no errors came up or anything. Everything as usual. Then about an hour later the same nurse came and asked to talk to me. She was very serious and I wondered what was going on. Had I gotten bad news from home? Was I in some kind of trouble? No. She told me she had given me the wrong medication. Seroquil instead of my usual Remeron. She told me she was just devostated and preceded to describe what the Seroquil was like. It was for anxiety and should help me to sleep. I put my hand on her arm and told her I had faith in her. It was going to okay. She must have apologized five times in the five minutes we talked. She is a senior nurse and someone had put the wrong med in the bin with the Remeron. The next day I slept off and on all day. No energy. I made to some meals, no groups.