Truth; I haven't ever taken in a prescription before. I'm not even a legal adult yet people! So lets just say the poor pharmacist was pretty confused when I gave her the prescription for Dapper's medication. I sort of just shoved the paper at her and let her figure it out. She asked a few questions, like "is this for some sort of animal?" and then proceeded to make me sign away pretty much all the rights I ever had on the little pen-pad. Then I left until the prescription was filled.
Thirty minutes later I return.
"We don't have this medication in stock," the pharmacist informs me in her thick, Latino accent.
"What?? no no, no of course you do!" (I didn't say this out loud obviously, I just sort of stand there instead).
"We can order it and it will be here tomorrow though."
"Ok that would be great," I answer.
"It will be $30 is that OK?"
No no no thank you, Ms. pharmacist. But my vet is cheaper.
(Oh dear what now?)
"Of course we have Trimethoprim with Sulfa added. It is free and should be fine for your animal...."
What? I thought I already had Trimethoprim with Sulfa! I checked my prescription in the car and low and behold it was not Sulfa-Trim like I thought. Not that it was important, but it made me feel pretty dumb that I didn't even know what I was giving my animal.
I call the vet, they say the Sulfa-Trim is fine, and so I get a new prescription, pick up the
'Sulfa trim' and proceeded to hope Dapper liked this stuff better- because it was a pain to obtain, even if it was "free".
Then something amazing happened. I put a little bit of the medication on a plate in Dapper's cage and he LICKED IT UP. Without any baby food, oats or anything. He loved the cherry flavored pink sticky goo all by itself. You know how they say that its the little things that count? Well maybe it's true, because this really made my day, hey it made my WEEK (no wait, my two weeks actually because that's how long he stayed on it).
"We don't have this medication in stock," the pharmacist informs me in her thick, Latino accent.
"What?? no no, no of course you do!" (I didn't say this out loud obviously, I just sort of stand there instead).
"We can order it and it will be here tomorrow though."
"Ok that would be great," I answer.
"It will be $30 is that OK?"
No no no thank you, Ms. pharmacist. But my vet is cheaper.
(Oh dear what now?)
"Of course we have Trimethoprim with Sulfa added. It is free and should be fine for your animal...."
What? I thought I already had Trimethoprim with Sulfa! I checked my prescription in the car and low and behold it was not Sulfa-Trim like I thought. Not that it was important, but it made me feel pretty dumb that I didn't even know what I was giving my animal.
I call the vet, they say the Sulfa-Trim is fine, and so I get a new prescription, pick up the
'Sulfa trim' and proceeded to hope Dapper liked this stuff better- because it was a pain to obtain, even if it was "free".
Then something amazing happened. I put a little bit of the medication on a plate in Dapper's cage and he LICKED IT UP. Without any baby food, oats or anything. He loved the cherry flavored pink sticky goo all by itself. You know how they say that its the little things that count? Well maybe it's true, because this really made my day, hey it made my WEEK (no wait, my two weeks actually because that's how long he stayed on it).
Dapper getting a little tamer.
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