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Thank you all for your thoughts. You've given me much to ponder. I may put D in charge of her meds beginning Sunday (she uses a weekly dispenser that starts on Sundays--I'm embarrassed to say I even fill it each week, at the same time I do my own). She doesn't drive, so I'll have to do the pickups, but I like the idea of her keeping track and calling in refills, then telling me when it's time to do a pharmacy run.
I looked up the Rite Aid system of automatic refills and it sounds good (they call when the refill is ready and call the doc when a new prescription is needed), so long as there is one nearby her eventual school. I've never used a mail order pharmacy and don't feel entirely comfortable about putting meds in the hands of the postal service when I often get bills that belong to a house with the same number as mine on a nearby street.
D takes everything in the morning, so school strictures haven't been a problem. She does carry a rescue inhaler for asthma, which is probably in violation of some school rule, but I'll be darned if I'll have her schlepping over to the nurse's office when she's having an asthma attack, and I can't imagine a teacher being nutty enough to turn her in for using it in class. But camp rules, necessary as they are, have been an impediment to D's developing any independence. Even as a CIT, D has been required to obtain her meds from the infirmary each day, and they call kids in over the PA system if they don't show up. At least at home no one checks up on her to be sure she's taken her pills.
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