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Re: hcm petpeeves
Golly Gee,
You didn’t think the story ended there did you. I got a call from the epilepsy clinic who wants to check out some information with our PCP before she contacts the insurance company to confirm that they really authorized the referral. Well, my PCP is in El Salvador this week on a mission. Either her nurse (who’s pretty sharp) will supply the information, or we’ll have to add a week to this project. I don’t know why the clinic doctor would organize and run a five hour seminar trying to attract people to the clinic, while his staff is trying desperately to keep people out.
There’s more. Just as I was getting ready to leave the house I got another insulin delivery – but first, let me give you some background. My endocrinologist had me on both the short lasting Humalog insulin and the long term Vantage insulin. As my use grew, the doctor wrote two prescriptions, stepping up my 90 day supply from three bottles of each to five bottles of each. This was just before he left on vacation for the month of July. When I got the prescriptions home I noticed that they were both for Humalog, with none for Lantis. I crossed out one Humalog and wrote in Lantis, and sent them in.
This caused a great delay at the pharmacy, and when I called they said that the doctor hadn’t initialed the change for the Lantis, so they couldn’t fill it. I asked them to put a rush on the rest of the order, then called the doctor’s nurse who gave me a 90 day supply of Lantis. The only problem was it was a half hour highway drive each way to his office.
A few days later I called again, as they still hadn’t shipped the order and I was about out of the Humalog. This led to another trip to the doctor’s office to pick up two bottles of samples of that. Yesterday the order came – five bottles of Humalog. OK? Are we happy? I now had five sample bottles of Vantage, two sample bottles of Humalog, and the five ordered bottles of Humalog. I was set.
Well today I got another shipment, just as I was about out the door. I received six bottles of Vantage (I now have at least a six month supply of this on hand) plus I got a number of my other prescription drugs which I hadn’t ordered, - but I guess they thought I needed them. I did send them prescriptions for three other drugs, as the previous prescriptions had expired, but they sent back a note saying I can order one on August fifth, a second on the fourteenth, and the last on the sixteenth. Yesterday my wife got one of her drugs from them in the mail.
We can only order a 90 day supply of each of our drugs, and my wife and I each take a goodly quantity. I thought, “Wouldn’t it be much simpler to order all the drugs at once, and do it once every three months?” No, no, no. It seems we have to order a couple of different drugs every week. - Keeping track of who needs what and when has developed into a major project.
Life can be a scream – sha-boom, sha-boom.
Burt
Golly Gee,
You didn’t think the story ended there did you. I got a call from the epilepsy clinic who wants to check out some information with our PCP before she contacts the insurance company to confirm that they really authorized the referral. Well, my PCP is in El Salvador this week on a mission. Either her nurse (who’s pretty sharp) will supply the information, or we’ll have to add a week to this project. I don’t know why the clinic doctor would organize and run a five hour seminar trying to attract people to the clinic, while his staff is trying desperately to keep people out.
There’s more. Just as I was getting ready to leave the house I got another insulin delivery – but first, let me give you some background. My endocrinologist had me on both the short lasting Humalog insulin and the long term Vantage insulin. As my use grew, the doctor wrote two prescriptions, stepping up my 90 day supply from three bottles of each to five bottles of each. This was just before he left on vacation for the month of July. When I got the prescriptions home I noticed that they were both for Humalog, with none for Lantis. I crossed out one Humalog and wrote in Lantis, and sent them in.
This caused a great delay at the pharmacy, and when I called they said that the doctor hadn’t initialed the change for the Lantis, so they couldn’t fill it. I asked them to put a rush on the rest of the order, then called the doctor’s nurse who gave me a 90 day supply of Lantis. The only problem was it was a half hour highway drive each way to his office.
A few days later I called again, as they still hadn’t shipped the order and I was about out of the Humalog. This led to another trip to the doctor’s office to pick up two bottles of samples of that. Yesterday the order came – five bottles of Humalog. OK? Are we happy? I now had five sample bottles of Vantage, two sample bottles of Humalog, and the five ordered bottles of Humalog. I was set.
Well today I got another shipment, just as I was about out the door. I received six bottles of Vantage (I now have at least a six month supply of this on hand) plus I got a number of my other prescription drugs which I hadn’t ordered, - but I guess they thought I needed them. I did send them prescriptions for three other drugs, as the previous prescriptions had expired, but they sent back a note saying I can order one on August fifth, a second on the fourteenth, and the last on the sixteenth. Yesterday my wife got one of her drugs from them in the mail.
We can only order a 90 day supply of each of our drugs, and my wife and I each take a goodly quantity. I thought, “Wouldn’t it be much simpler to order all the drugs at once, and do it once every three months?” No, no, no. It seems we have to order a couple of different drugs every week. - Keeping track of who needs what and when has developed into a major project.
Life can be a scream – sha-boom, sha-boom.
Burt
they usually come when tired 
ah how bad coincidence.
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