Thursday, April 16, 2015

The Battle of the Syringes

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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