Pharmacies....hahaha!

Hubby normally has his prescriptions mailed to him, but we are taking a little trip and wanted to make sure he got them, so had them filled at the HMO pharmacy....45 miles away. They called and said they were in so we made the trip today.His Humulin R U-500 was not in. He has gotten the vial and syringes for years. Today, they told him he had to switch to the Qwik-set pen. I was in the car and he called me. I went in, and when I asked why he couldn't get the vial, the gal said, "we can no longer get it."I asked, "why not?" And she said, "they are no longer manufacturing it."I had already checked Eli Lilly on my iPhone and showed her the website and said, "they are still manufacturing it." To which she replied, "it is no longer on our formulary."So I said, "I checked your formulary in November and it was on the 2018 formulary. You cannot change your formulary mid year and it is the ONLY reason with have stayed with this HMO."I had her in a corner and she said, "I'll let you talk to the pharmacist." And of course he started in with the same line of conversation, but when I got to the part that the could not change their formulary, I saw a look in his eyes and I knew immediately that he knew I was right!He made 1 phone call and the vial will be in tomorrow.But it means another 90 mile round trip to the pharmacy.I suggested to Hubby that we make a visit to his endocrinologist when we get home (heading out for about 3 weeks on Monday) a...
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