So last week I did the usual refill for Anastasia's insulin syringes. The picture in this post is the box we are accustomed to getting. I go to pick up the syringes at Rite Aid and go along my way. I finally crack into them about 2 days later and find they are not 1/2 units but full units. I figure a mistake was made since the order numbers are very similar and I pray they will allow me to return the boxes even though I opened 2 of the packages in one of the boxes.
Well returning them wasn't a problem but we were told that BD no longer makes the syringe. Well first I was told that the script was for full unit syringes which I know was wrong. Why did the last refill give me 1/2 units when supposedly my script wasn't for it???
Anyway after much arguing Alex got involved and we left with 2 boxes of (supposedly) 1/2 syringes that had an 8mm needle (we were using 6mm previously)
At this point I am furious. I don't want to stick Anastasia with an 8mm needle. I know it's only 2mm longer but to a toddler that's alot.
So Alex and I decide to try to find another pharmacy to meet our needs. We try Target first and the pharmacist found what we were looking for.
So I call Albany Med and get her script transferred over. Target calls me and we go over all the insurance info and I'm told because I just picked up syringes last week they won't be covered.
Really??!! So Alex & I decide we'll eat the cost of 1 box and have it ordered.
Wednesday I go to pick up the syringes and the pharmacist tells me the script that was sent was for 2 boxes bit we only ordered 1. I explain that the other pharmacist told me it wouldn't be covered so that was why 1 was ordered. He then tells me that our insurance covered it & that he ordered the second box as well.
:-)
It's the little things some times...
So then he wants me to ensure that they are what I need. I look at the box...and it's the same BD syringes we have been using for the past 8 months. The ones Rite Aid claimed that BD doesn't make anymore.
Oh and those 8mm syringes...when Alex opened them up he found they weren't 1/2 units either.
Gotta love it
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