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Mom's home!
She came home about 3pm this afternoon (wearing an air cast, but still...) and then Janet and I set out to pick up her prescriptions. There were quite a few of them, so I was expecting a fair wait. Instead, we had a marathon!
The adventure goes as follows...
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[Setting: The First Pharmacy]
Pharmacist: (looking over the prescriptions) Uh... we don't have all this here. They're looking for a brand of needles we don't carry. You can try the other pharmacy in the mall, but we can handle this. Come back in an hour.
Me: Okay!
[Setting: The Second Pharmacy]
Other Pharmacist: We have this brand. Come back in 20 minutes.
Me: Okay!
[Fourty or so minutes pass. The second prescription is picked up, so we return for the second one...]
Pharmacist: Uh.... small problem.
Me: (raises an eyebrow)
Pharmacist: We only have the brand name version of this drug.
Me: What's the difference?
Pharmacist: About $300.
Me: (feels faint)
Pharmacist: The other drug store MIGHT have the generic. Let me check... (phones) Okay, they have some of that drug there, but not enough to complete the prescription. Most drug stores don't carry enough to complete a prescription of this size...
Me: That's lovely.
Pharmacist: I'll transfer it over. Oh! And speaking of that, we don't have enough of one of the drugs here to complete all of the prescriptions we decided to fill out. You can pick up the balance tomorrow.
[And thus we walk back to the Second Pharmacy. At some point, half the city ended up at the drug store and suddenly wants prescriptions again. They're cranky.]
Other Pharmacist: You again?!
Me: Our prescription got transfered.
Other Pharmacist: Give me ten minutes.
[Twenty minutes pass. The crowd of people starts becoming edgy.]
Other Pharmacist: Shoot! We stuck the wrong label on! Another few minutes...
Random Person in the Crowd: What's Hep A? Someone needs to explain this to me in exact detail!
[Another twenty minutes pass. The older section of the crowd starts rioting. With walkers.]
Other Pharmacist: Here's your prescription! We'll phone you when the rest comes in!
Me: Thanks! (ducks, misses a flying bottle of some kind of herb, and makes a run for it)
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In the end, this adventure took over 2 hours and cost just over $200. It could have been worse, given that mom's drug plan covered about $100 on top of that. We still don't have all of it, given that we completely cleaned the mall out of a several antibiotics. The balance of those are coming in by Friday.
On top of this, I also have a grocery run tonight.
The adventure goes as follows...
---
[Setting: The First Pharmacy]
Pharmacist: (looking over the prescriptions) Uh... we don't have all this here. They're looking for a brand of needles we don't carry. You can try the other pharmacy in the mall, but we can handle this. Come back in an hour.
Me: Okay!
[Setting: The Second Pharmacy]
Other Pharmacist: We have this brand. Come back in 20 minutes.
Me: Okay!
[Fourty or so minutes pass. The second prescription is picked up, so we return for the second one...]
Pharmacist: Uh.... small problem.
Me: (raises an eyebrow)
Pharmacist: We only have the brand name version of this drug.
Me: What's the difference?
Pharmacist: About $300.
Me: (feels faint)
Pharmacist: The other drug store MIGHT have the generic. Let me check... (phones) Okay, they have some of that drug there, but not enough to complete the prescription. Most drug stores don't carry enough to complete a prescription of this size...
Me: That's lovely.
Pharmacist: I'll transfer it over. Oh! And speaking of that, we don't have enough of one of the drugs here to complete all of the prescriptions we decided to fill out. You can pick up the balance tomorrow.
[And thus we walk back to the Second Pharmacy. At some point, half the city ended up at the drug store and suddenly wants prescriptions again. They're cranky.]
Other Pharmacist: You again?!
Me: Our prescription got transfered.
Other Pharmacist: Give me ten minutes.
[Twenty minutes pass. The crowd of people starts becoming edgy.]
Other Pharmacist: Shoot! We stuck the wrong label on! Another few minutes...
Random Person in the Crowd: What's Hep A? Someone needs to explain this to me in exact detail!
[Another twenty minutes pass. The older section of the crowd starts rioting. With walkers.]
Other Pharmacist: Here's your prescription! We'll phone you when the rest comes in!
Me: Thanks! (ducks, misses a flying bottle of some kind of herb, and makes a run for it)
---
In the end, this adventure took over 2 hours and cost just over $200. It could have been worse, given that mom's drug plan covered about $100 on top of that. We still don't have all of it, given that we completely cleaned the mall out of a several antibiotics. The balance of those are coming in by Friday.
On top of this, I also have a grocery run tonight.