Posted by Racer on February 15, 2004, at 17:49:11
In reply to Numb and drooling., posted by allisonm on February 15, 2004, at 17:16:54
You're making me laugh again!
The last time I picked up a prescription (at the county mental health pharmacy -- like we couldn't be stigmatized any more), I told the woman behind the counter that I didn't need one of the meds. I take a quarter tablet, the scrip is for 35 of them: that's a four month supply! Anyway, she gives me a dirty look, pinches her mouth, and goes to talk to her supervisor. "The patient is refusing her meds." I call out, over the big divider that keeps us from strangling these Highly Trained Professionals, that I still have plenty from my last prescription. Well, I can hear them through the bulletproof acrylic, talking about "don't tell me she's not a drug seeker..." (I don't know if that was about me, I do get a pretty high number of Xanax tabs...) The end result was a very strongly worded, "Well, you don't have to take them this time, but we're going to contact your doctor and tell him you're refusing your medication."
On the other hand, if I get a good disguise, maybe it's just as well I don't have to go to the local pharmacy. At least at county, they KNOW we're nuts by definition. Personally, I think I'm a filbert. Little and rounded...
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