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i had planned on getting up early again to hit the grocery store and see if i could get some good deals on chicken breasts and some other meats.  but when the alarm went off this morning at 8 am, i crawled out of the bed, went to the kitchen and checked the freezer, and arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh..........no room.  it is crammed full of meats from the last trip, and frozen veggies.  so i went back to bed, lol.  i slept another four hours and then went to the drug store...............that is a story in and of itself:

i use a locally owned drug store for my prescription pharmaceuticals.  i am not crazy about the chain of stores, but it is a member of the "free" drug program i use through the Hands of Hope Clinic.  the owner is a mean nasty old fart who yells out orders to the younger people working there like a drill sargeant.  he doesn't usually work out front, but today, and on several other occasions, he has covered for a pharmacist who is on lunch.  most everyone who works there is related in one way or another.....except woody, my pharmacist from years back, who transferred  here when his other pharmacy closed.

ok, i won't go into all the problems i have had in the past with this pharmacy, just today.  a week ago i went by the pharmacy and dropped off my request for refills.  i asked for a 90 day amount, which is required by the program i am a member of.  i told them i would be back on thursday to pick them up.  well, thursday came and went and i was too busy to stop by, so didn't get back over till today.  a whole week later.  i went up and told them my name and she got the prescriptions out of the large conveyer, and told me that they were 60 pills short on one of the prescriptions.  but she figured they would have them in now, so would get them to fill the order while i waited.  an hour and 10 minutes later, i still didn't have my 60 pills.  i was getting weak from not having eaten before leaving home, and was starting to shake.  i told her i would have to come back after i went to eat.  she said to hold on, that all they had to do was count the pills.  another 10 minutes..........nothing.  i went back up and told her to forget it, i was leaving.  she then went over and told woody what was going on, and in a minute i had my pills.  by the time i got to the captain d's to eat, i was a mess.  after eating i felt a whole world better.  now i can take on the world, lol. 

pharmacies frighten me.  i have had some horrible things happen to me at pharmacies.  i had one pharmacist, old and didn't need to be working, filled my prescription with the wrong medication.  when i opened it at home that night to take one, i noticed it was not the same.  i didn't take it and the next day i went back in.  do you know what he had the nerve to tell me???????????????  that he didn't make mistakes, that i had taken the bottle home and put different pills in the bottle and brought it back to get him in trouble and to get more pills for free..............i reported him immediately to the better business bureau, the pharmaceutical association and the home office.  a week later i went in and he wasn't there.  i asked around................they fired him............wooo hoooo!!!!!!!!!

when i was raising my daughter alone, i was on medicaid.  there was a particular pharmacist that had no respect for people on welfare or public assistance of any kind.  my doctor's office had called in a prescript for my daughter and the next day i went in to get it.  he said it wasn't on file.  someone else checked it and found the order, but it hadn't been filled.  i asked if he could fill it then, as i had a neighbor watching my daughter, who was very ill and needed the meds immediately.  he said i would have to wait till he got all the other prescripts filled.  i told him my doctor called it in the day before, and that it was supposed to be ready.  he said the doctor never called it in till that morning, but the other clerk had told me that the order came in the day before at 12:18 pm, which is right after i had called the doctor.  then i heard something i never would have dreamed i would hear..............the pharmacist muttered under his breath the words "white trash come in here demanding stuff" and i heard him.  i asked him to repeat that loud enough that everyone could hear.  he said he didn't say anything.  the clerk looked at him, then at me, and said they heard him say it too.  he finished filling my prescript and came around to the counter and had a clip board in his hand with a log i had to sign since it was going to be paid for by medicaid.  he THREW the clipboard at me and made another comment about medicaid people.  he hit me in the stomach with the clipboard, so i picked it up and threw it back at him, hitting him in the chest.  i told him that i was a human being with a sick child and i deserved to be respected, and i would sign it when he handed it to me like a decent person would do.  he grumbled something and layed it down on the counter and walked off.  i signed it, asked the clerk what the pharmacist's name was, since he didn't have on a name tag, and went home, called the proper authorities, and a couple of weeks later i found out that he not only was fired, but after the clerk was witness against him, he actually lost his license.  not sure if he lost it for good or if it was just suspended, but either way, justice was served.  i guess i wasn't the only person that he did that to..........since there are so many of us "white trash medicaid recipients" in this world.

ok, i have vented over my interaction with pharmacists........so i will let your poor eyes rest for now.  have a blessed day...............