Day 269 - Teething! & Pharmacy Refill Issues
Saturday, September 25th, 2021 Today is Juju's birthday and Notre Dame football! 🥳🎈🎉 ☘️🏈👏! Mom went to pick up James' antibiotic and refills at CVS. It turns out that several of his medications (like almost all of them) have some type of issue where they cannot be filled. A few examples are 1) His lansoprazole (Prevacid) needs to come from a compounding pharmacy which CVS is not. 2) His sodium chloride can only be picked up from a Hospital Pharmacy. 3) His calcium carbonate is only carried at select pharmacies. 4) His multivitamin, melatonin, and Mylicon (gas drops) can be purchased over the counter however the dosage and strength is different and would require James getting twice as much quantity and his belly. So we are trying to get these approved to go through insurance instead of out-of-pocket. So not only do we have to contact four different doctors (pediatrician, pulmonology, gi, endocrinology) to refill James' 11 medications, we now have to go to four different...