BrokenArts on 26/5/2009 at 05:21
I won't shop at WalMart unless I absolutely have to. Glad you could find alternatives, and people that actually cared enough to go to bat for you, and get you what you need. I'm one for supporting the local economy.
Oh boy I can hardly wait for your religious BS thread!:D
Nicker on 26/5/2009 at 05:46
Glad to hear your nightmare has ended happily. I hope there is a more permanent solution for you in the near future, fett.
Makes one wonder about the quality of thinking among the bureaucrats running our crucial medical infrastructure.
Like the medical isotope situation recently.
Quote:
World isotope supplies were rocked later in 2008 when key reactors in Belgium, Canada, France, South Africa and the Netherlands, which between them provide about 85% of the world's cobalt-60 supply and virtually all of the technetium-99m and molybdenum-99, were undergoing refuelling and maintenance within weeks of each other.
The Canadian reactor sprung a leak after a power failure last week, that after being shut down for safety reasons last year.
Anyway, fett. Thank you for the reminder to be thankful for the health we have and to make good use of the time with loved ones it affords us.
theBlackman on 26/5/2009 at 06:37
Glad to hear that you will be with us for a while. Having to depend on any medication for normal functions, or near normal, is something I would not wish on an enemy.
Good luck, and I hope the supply returns to normal so you don't have to deal with either the Pacemaker or the lack of the meds.
I guess I'm one of the lucky ones, for which I thank the Gods, or stars. At my age nearly everyone I know could run a pharmacy out of their bathroom medicine cabinet.
I don't even use aspirin.
Mr.Duck on 26/5/2009 at 06:50
*Squeezes fett's shoulder*
Amen, man, amen.
Nothing more I feel I could add.
Matthew on 26/5/2009 at 13:20
fett, sorry to hear that your health is not so hot, but I'm glad you were able to get sorted out.
Queue on 26/5/2009 at 13:43
Quote Posted by fett
But when it came to this, the Wal-Mart pharmacy literally did not give a fuck. Since my prescription is on file with them, I went to three different WM stores to try to get it filled. Even after explaining to them the whole "threat of pacemaker" thing if I didn't find the meds (which I LOATHE doing because it makes me sound like a freak or a drug fiend, despite the fact that this is a maintenance med), their basic attitude was "it sucks to be you...when's my break?"
[as mentioned in PM] Yup, I got the exact same attitude from the Wally-Mart pharmacist. I'm standing there (and not very well mind you) with a blood pressure approaching 200/160 by that point, begging for some sort of refill to get me through the weekend (long story short: my prescriptions for Toprol and diazide were due for a refill, I called it in to the doctor's office on a Thursday morning, went to pick it up Friday night and hadn't been refilled) and the pharmacist refused as the doctor had not called in the refill. Not that the doctor's office was any better, as the answering service informed my that they do not authorize prescription refills on the weekends. I ended up going to some after-hours clinic and paying through the nose to finally get a couple of stupid pills.
Once again, really glad you're okay.
Koki on 26/5/2009 at 13:58
Quote Posted by fett
The moral of the story is, be happy if you're healthy.
Okay.
SubJeff on 26/5/2009 at 15:07
Quote Posted by dethtoll
Long live fett.
What he said.
I often think that as someone without any major ailments I'm incredibly lucky. Gives one a new perspective on life for a while - until the drudgery of the everyday kicks back in again. Glad its all sorted out. Drug sourcing problems are ridiculous because they
have to know that some of the customers
have to use specific drugs.
Congrats to your wife for completing her training too.
fett on 26/5/2009 at 15:31
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
What he said.
Drug sourcing problems are ridiculous because they
have to know that some of the customers
have to use specific drugs.
Congrats to your wife for completing her training too.
In my experience, the ones they know people
have to have are the ones they charge the most for, citing "research costs." It's odd how that correlation always works in the favor of the drug company. I've never heard one claim, "Hey - you'll die without this medicine and guess what? It costs so little to make, it's only 5 cents a pill." It's sad when erectile dysfunction meds cost 5% of heart and liver medications that are life-essential. :erg:
SubJeff on 26/5/2009 at 15:43
Yeah, they certainly try to market things to make the big bucks. In some ways I feel we can't blame them (they are businesses after all) but sometimes the decisions to charge the earth for things that end up adversely affecting people is such bs there should be laws against it. (Sometimes they make hilarious mess-ups out of greed though. Some new anaesthetic stuff has come out which is supposed to be all "Hallelujah! We got the shit right here!" but its so expensive no one wants it and the arm of the company that makes it is running at a massive loss. Take that money guzzlers!)
I guess without an NHS you have to pay for all this somehow too fett. That sucks. Here its £40 for 84x100mg tabs. I can't imagine what would happen if people here were expected to pay the full (private) price for it - prescription supplements under the NHS make it £7.20, and in some circumstances prescriptions are free.
