It's Been Awhile...No, Not The Staind Song
Sorry it's been so long since I last posted. I guess I really didn't have all that much going on and didn't want to bore you. I still don't have a lot going on, but I felt I should make an appearance so you all know that I'm still alive. There's only one thing I really feel like complaining about today. Basically, I'm sick of how everyone seems to be so friggin busy all the time that they don't put the time and care they should into things. Yes, this happens in the writing world, I often will read a great book, but when I get to the end I end up being disappointed because it feels rushed. Like the author just wanted to hurry and get it over with. I'm a real stickler for endings...it's also what I have the most trouble with in my own work.
But I'm more or less talking about the general population. Take, for instance, CVS pharmacy. (Bring on the lawsuit!) This place has commercials all over the place touting how they take pride in making sure their customers are always safe. They have that whole medication check system to make sure they don't let their customers take two drugs that contraindicate each other. I feel relatively safe putting my life in their hands...at least I did.
I was running low on happy pills on Thursday, so I called in a refill to pick up on Friday. I had some training to do for the freelance gig, so my hubby was nice enough to pick it up for me. Of course I don't open the bottle until after CVS was closed. By now I had no pills left in the old bottle. So I crack open the new one and right away notice something wasn't right. The bottle was much bigger, and inside were long capsules rather than my usual hexagon shaped tablets. I read the label...Effexor...75mg...take one tablet twice daily. Ok. Same label. I look at one of the pills. Written on it is "Effexor XR 75mg." Ok...now I've done research on my meds and know that there is an extended release formula, but I didn't know whether or not you could just take it with the regular Effexor or not.
By now it's 11:30 at night. I need to take my pill. I'm already getting a jones headache. So I call my doctor and get the answering service. They tell me the doctor on call will get back to me. She does and I explain the situation. She said that it was an error on the pharmacy's end and I should go first thing in the morning to get the prescription fixed. The XR version is more potent and you take it less often. It also has side effects related to it that my prescription does not...more serious side effects. I asked what I should do about my withdrawal symptoms...she said if it was really bad to take one XR but then not to take my regular meds till the next night. Being weird about allowing stuff in my body since kicking the illegal drug habit...I decided to deal with the jones till the morning.
Next morning I bring the pills back as soon as CVS opens. Some teenager behind the counter takes forever looking for the proper pills and finally ends up giving them to me with a weak "sorry about that." Yeah, you would have been more sorry had I been someone who didn't bother researching my meds and assumed that it was just another form of the same drug. Had I taken two of those a day, I could have been royally fucked. So thank you CVS for your heartfelt apology and concern. Blow me.
But this is what I'm talking about. Even people who are in a field that can mean life or death to people, they don't bother to watch what they're doing. Hurry, hurry , hurry. Have to get home in time to watch The Bachelor! I'll just throw these pills in here and be gone! Now I'm not saying I am miss calm and laid back...those of you who know me know that is rarely true. I speed, I like to be places on time, I can be obsessed with just getting to where I want to go. But I have gotten much better as of late. And if my job held people's lives in my hand...you can damn well be sure that I wouldn't half-ass my way through it. I don't know if this rant makes any sense, but I just felt like relaying my feelings to the populace.
My eyes hurt and my brain is tired. So I think that'll be all for now. I'll try to post a little more often...but things have been kinda boring as of late.
Sorry it's been so long since I last posted. I guess I really didn't have all that much going on and didn't want to bore you. I still don't have a lot going on, but I felt I should make an appearance so you all know that I'm still alive. There's only one thing I really feel like complaining about today. Basically, I'm sick of how everyone seems to be so friggin busy all the time that they don't put the time and care they should into things. Yes, this happens in the writing world, I often will read a great book, but when I get to the end I end up being disappointed because it feels rushed. Like the author just wanted to hurry and get it over with. I'm a real stickler for endings...it's also what I have the most trouble with in my own work.
But I'm more or less talking about the general population. Take, for instance, CVS pharmacy. (Bring on the lawsuit!) This place has commercials all over the place touting how they take pride in making sure their customers are always safe. They have that whole medication check system to make sure they don't let their customers take two drugs that contraindicate each other. I feel relatively safe putting my life in their hands...at least I did.
I was running low on happy pills on Thursday, so I called in a refill to pick up on Friday. I had some training to do for the freelance gig, so my hubby was nice enough to pick it up for me. Of course I don't open the bottle until after CVS was closed. By now I had no pills left in the old bottle. So I crack open the new one and right away notice something wasn't right. The bottle was much bigger, and inside were long capsules rather than my usual hexagon shaped tablets. I read the label...Effexor...75mg...take one tablet twice daily. Ok. Same label. I look at one of the pills. Written on it is "Effexor XR 75mg." Ok...now I've done research on my meds and know that there is an extended release formula, but I didn't know whether or not you could just take it with the regular Effexor or not.
By now it's 11:30 at night. I need to take my pill. I'm already getting a jones headache. So I call my doctor and get the answering service. They tell me the doctor on call will get back to me. She does and I explain the situation. She said that it was an error on the pharmacy's end and I should go first thing in the morning to get the prescription fixed. The XR version is more potent and you take it less often. It also has side effects related to it that my prescription does not...more serious side effects. I asked what I should do about my withdrawal symptoms...she said if it was really bad to take one XR but then not to take my regular meds till the next night. Being weird about allowing stuff in my body since kicking the illegal drug habit...I decided to deal with the jones till the morning.
Next morning I bring the pills back as soon as CVS opens. Some teenager behind the counter takes forever looking for the proper pills and finally ends up giving them to me with a weak "sorry about that." Yeah, you would have been more sorry had I been someone who didn't bother researching my meds and assumed that it was just another form of the same drug. Had I taken two of those a day, I could have been royally fucked. So thank you CVS for your heartfelt apology and concern. Blow me.
But this is what I'm talking about. Even people who are in a field that can mean life or death to people, they don't bother to watch what they're doing. Hurry, hurry , hurry. Have to get home in time to watch The Bachelor! I'll just throw these pills in here and be gone! Now I'm not saying I am miss calm and laid back...those of you who know me know that is rarely true. I speed, I like to be places on time, I can be obsessed with just getting to where I want to go. But I have gotten much better as of late. And if my job held people's lives in my hand...you can damn well be sure that I wouldn't half-ass my way through it. I don't know if this rant makes any sense, but I just felt like relaying my feelings to the populace.
My eyes hurt and my brain is tired. So I think that'll be all for now. I'll try to post a little more often...but things have been kinda boring as of late.
posted by Meghan at 3:44 PM
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