I've never had strep throat, well, before right now, anyway. I can only describe the pain as blistering. And for the next 10 days, I have to take one gigantic, antibiotic pill every eight hours. How will I ever keep up my chic gaming image while wasting away on a medication regimen? 

That's when I remembered that my review copy of Trauma Team came with this curious, little item:

A pill box full of strangely powdery M&Ms. I took this picture last night, so you can imagine how nice and stale they are since Dan Hsu sent this to me over a month ago. But that's nothing a thorough washing can't fix. 

I hate carrying pill bottles around with me, and I have a ton of useless gaming swag just taking up space. I use my Resident Evil 5 bag as a purse, and the Mirror's Edge pre-order bonus as a laptop case....

Hit the jump to see how this weird candy box becomes a fashionable medication dispenser.

The box not only holds four days of pills but has a nifty sliding compartment for bandages. 

My antibiotics sort of look like candy, or those pills that make Drop Dead Fred go away.