So I get a message that my prescription is ready. Which prescription is always a surprise. I'm thinking it's the new medicatiofn called florinef to replace the midodrine to increase my blood pressure right? Ha!
I get there and it's my muscle relaxer, bummer. So I ask about the florinef because I'd like to have it today so I can try it first over the weekend when my husband is home. Guess what? It's backordered until Feb 18th!!!!! They have none. No Kaiser on the peninsula has any. At all. It's out of stock because everyone who currently takes Midodrine has been switched to it and the pharmaceutical company can't handle the new volume.
I didn't even know how to respond. I almost started crying. The pharmacist came over and the guy who's been helping me thru this bullshit asks her if there's anything else I can use. She says Sudafe, not without compassion. So I leave. Dejected and trying not to cry.
As I sit down in the car my phone rings. Its Kaiser! It's my friend in the pharmacy I just left saying "have you left yet don't leave! Come back!"
"What's going on?"
"We just got our shipment and opened it and midodrine is in it!"
I've been burned too many times before so I say "are you sure? Do you have it in your hand?"
I hear him mumble to the pharmacist to hand him a bottle. He laughs and says "I'm holding it right now"
"Ok I'll be right in"
I drag my poor 5 year old who has been so patient with these million trips to the pharmacy back into the building and into the pharmacy where the guy who called me sees me and laughs.
So, I've been given a one month reprieve....
We'll see what happens now.
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