Bambinos

Seven.............to two. Chris and I finally showed up.



Whoo!

Happy Howl-O-Ween

I couldn't resist. She hates wearing this ghost costume. Infact it was on for a whopping three minutes but the pictures are priceless.

Austin bound!

In t-minus two hours and counting. I'm totally jazzed/wired and can't sleep. I NEED to sleep. Josh and I are first shift drivers. ugh. driving, 12 hours, with my bro in the car as well.

Watch for us on TV! ABC 2:30 CDT kickoff!

Keep the faith and don't stop believ-N!

GBR!

Sox Dance Off

I believe all this action was for clinching the regular season. I can only imagine the kind of jig we will see for making it to the Series. I wonder what they are calling this in Boston? The 'Bon, Riverbon, Papledance?

Go SOX!

Spinning my wheels

I've been back from vacation for approximately one week and I feel as though I've been spinning my wheels and getting nothing done. I've started half my to do list and finished maybe two things out of the 20+ on the damn list.

In other work news I'm going to share a conversation I had with a patient yesterday. One of my tech's puts the phone on hold and says to me "I tried really hard but I am just not getting through to him" Of course I want to know what isn't getting through. He wanted to "negotiate" a lower price for his Spiriva Inhaler. He has a medicare part D card that gives it to him for the affordable independent pharmacy violating co pay price of $28 and it retails for approximately $150.

Me: What can I do for you sir
Him: I want to know how I can get a negotiated price on my Inhaler.
Me: I'm sorry sir, but that is the price your insurance has set up.
Him: But I want to negotiated a lower price. How do we proceed.
Me: Unfortunately, the only thing you can do is pay $28.
Him: What do you think this costs in Canada?
Me: I don't know sir. I'm not a registered pharmacist working in Canada.
Him: But I bet you know its lower than $28
Me: Well, I don't know about that. I suppose you could take a bus trip to Canada to find out.
Him: So what kind of discount are you going to give me?
Me: Sir, really I can't do anything. Your insurance card already reimbursed me $3.00 BELOW the ACTUAL DRUG COST. I can't take anything more off the price.
Him: So you're telling me you're not making money off of me. I find it hard to believe. What do you do make it all up on my other scripts?
Me: No sir, I am not trying to rob you of all your money with one prescription.
Him: Well $28 is pretty steep. I find it hard to believe. How about you take another ten dollars off?

At this point I can feel the vein in my neck and forehead just jumping out of my skin.

Me: I just explained that I'm already losing money and now you want me to take $10 dollars off?
Him: Whats ten more dollars when you aren't making anything in the first place?
Me: Okay here is the deal you can pay full cost of $150 or pay $28 you decide which "negotiated" price you'd like to take.
Him: So that's it.
Me: Yes that's it.

click.

Sadly this conversation was not someone pulling my chain. And people wonder why I drink. I have dozens of these kinds of phone calls everyday. You know why the insurance companies have such lengthy automated phone systems? They want you to give up in complete and utter desperation. That way they never have to deal directly or indirectly with the people they are screwing, I mean insuring. So the next best choice is for everyone with a gripe about the effed up health care system is to take it out on the already spread too thin jack of all health care trades..............the retail pharmacist.

Go ahead. Rip and flame away. I hope you walk away feeling better about your situation. Damn right you put those pharmacy folks in their place. Who are we to say you can't get brand name Darvocet for $3 anyway? Even better, throw your receipts back at us and call us "you people" My personal all time favorite derogatory remark. From now on I'm going to assume "you people" is referring to the high percentage of people who are far more educated than the person flinging the insults from across the counter. I may just have to adopt my own "you people" group to complete the ugly circle. I wish "you people" would stop screaming about how your purple pill out to be laced with gold. Didn't you know that's what the stripes were on the outside? How bout them apples?

Okay, to set the record straight.

1. I feel much better.
2. I don't really think about this stuff every single second while at work. Just every hour of my shift.
3. I do love my job and the patients I serve. Sometimes I'm just pushed to my very limits. Much like I imagine my brother and I did to our parents. And I think they still love us. Dad affectionately calls us 'roid #1 and #2.
4. The red haired, spunky, 76 y/o irish gal who came up to the counter and said yes I'd like to pick up my prescription. She told my tech her name was Jose Cuervo. There is still hope out there.


I'll leave you all with some laughs. Check out this clip for some Lost bloopers.
"I feel like Darth Vader"

Whew this was a long one. Thanks for sticking with me and sorry for all my bad grammer and poor sentence structure. Its late and I could give a crap less if it annoys anyone reading this blog.

Hugs and kisses everyone!

Iran so far away

This is the SNL skit I was talking about the other night. Freaking hysterical!

NYC post #2

I'm having a great time here in the city. Yesterday we did a lot of walking, walking, and more walking. The highlight for me was St. Patricks cathedral. Can you say wow! I also found a beautiful rosary. Not much time to post too much. I'll leave you with a picture. I hope to breakdown some highlights of the trip in more detail when I get home.

Greetings from NYC!

After a waaaaaaaay to early morning, I only had two hours of sleep, we arrived in NYC. So far I've managed to watch a ton of baseball in times square and drink my arse off. I'll try to post updates when I can.

Later gators!

Disgusted

Really. Really. Disgusted. Dating back to October of 2001 it seems like every nationally televised game we are getting blown out in front of the nation. Whats worse about tonight? We're getting our asses handed to us by more than 30 points AT HOME and it isn't even the fourth quarter yet.

Thanks for nothing Kevin Fucking Cosgrove. Hand the ball off to anyone and let them run up the middle for 9+ yards every freaking time. Did our linebackers even show up tonight? Nice adjustments at the half as usual. I had no idea our run defense was so bad. I can't remember the last time I wanted to stop watching a Husker game in the third.

Its hard to keep the faith right now. But I bleed big red. And right now someone has cut my jugular. I'm a universal donor, but can anyone step up and help me? I think I'm past a transfusion and in need of a heart transplant.

GBR.

The Jail Bird

Otherwise known as Ellie. So the other day I didn't get the doggie gate locked in place and she knocked it over. Only fatality was the laundry room rug. Today, I came home after two hours of work and she met me at the door. Her gate was still up. She's one helluva jumper but it hasn't quite clicked in her mind that she can hurdle the gate. At least until now. She scooted her bed all the way across the room and used it to propel herself up and over. I'm sure she could do it without the bed but I don't want her to figure that out anytime soon. From the looks of it she took her toy with her and slept on my pillow for a couple hours. I am going to have to re evaluate her quarters when I am away.

Every condition requires a prescription

I had forgotten about this little gem. I sent this one out last year so some of you may have seen this.

Enjoy!

Day of Conception

I'm really at a loss for this one. I mean have a baby and get a car?!? Does that really beat 0%APR or cash back options in the long run? And isn't this unofficially recognized world wide as New Year's Eve?

Read more here.

I am forcing myself to be in bed at 11pm. I haven't been sleeping all that well and I've got a ten hour shift tomorrow. I've been working double time to get things ready for the scriptpro install on Saturday. These kinds of things never go smooth, well planned or not. I like to at least make the effort on the off chance I could get lucky and things would go well.