The week leading up to our wedding, Joey started running low on his GERD meds. He called up his doctor’s office and asked that they call the pharmacy to authorize a refill. They didn’t. In fact, for several days in a row, he was making calls back and forth between Walgreens and the doctor’s office, trying to figure out why it hadn’t been taken care of. Eventually he ran out. Finally, they authorized the refill…the day after Joey finished working at Push and was therefore dropped from his insurance.
One of the medications, Pantoprazole, makes you sick if you stop taking it for even a few days, and Joey did get really sick—it was a nightmare. What’s more, it was several hundred dollars to get the prescriptions without insurance!
He’s started running low again, so today we set out to get his prescription refilled. We had expected to need to visit a doctor, but someone suggested we try just showing up at the pharmacy instead. We did, armed with his current medications.
The pharmacist took a look at the bottles and pulled out both drugs. No doctor, no problem. The grand total? 164,000 dong ($9.37). Really?! Really.
(phonology)
In other news, we both passed the grammar and phonology test with flying colors, and received our certificates today. We’re graduates! The past four weeks have gone by incredibly fast, and it’s really hard to believe that we’re finished.
(studying!)
We’re still seriously floundering about what to do in terms of this job situation…we’ve come across several other possibilities in locations we would much prefer (the beach, the mountains), but I’m not sure how long we can put off responding to the offer in Bien Hoa without being really rude. And I’m just not positive that things will move quickly enough with the others that we’ll be able to wait.
Tonight? Karaoke!
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