December 8, 2007

I just wanted to update everyone on the day I had yesterday. This is one for the record books for sure.

My medication comes from a speciality pharmacy. So it is mail order. It is shipped directly to my house. Well on Tuesday I get a call from someone at my RE’s office to go over what meds I have and which ones I need. She then faxes the prescriptions to the pharmacy and tells me to order a refill of my Prometrium (an oral progesterone). Well on Thursday I notice that my wallet is near the phone because I had been calling my insurance company to deal with the mouse issues. So I decide that I will call in my refill because likely they will need a credit card to send me my meds.

While I have them on the phone I ask them about the prescriptions that were faxed to them. They can’t find a record of the fax. The lady on the phone tells me she will call my RE and resolve this problem and that odds are they just sent the prescription to the wrong division in the same company. Don’t you just love how company divisions talk to one another! Ha ha!

So yesterday I call them since I hadn’t heard back from them. They say they don’t have a record of the prescription anywhere in their system. They tell me to call my RE and have them send the prescriptions. So I call my RE. They say not only were the prescriptions faxed to the right division, but they have the confirmation to prove it.

So then I get a phone call in the afternoon from the pharmacy. They say that they now have the 10 page fax of prescriptions (6 meds, needles and a cover letter). How they could loose a 10 page fax is beyond me!

She starts going over the different medications, then she gets to the HcG or trigger shot. This is a medication that releases the eggs in the follicles and makes it so the RE can collect them for the IVF process. So it is an important medication. It also happens to be the hormone that is tested for when I do a beta. So this is the the hormone that has been a burr in my side for the last month. I guess there is a nationwide back order of this medication and they don’t have any to send. She more or less tells me when I get to that point that my RE will find some for me. To me this sounds more like “well you need to find your own HcG we can’t help you.” I ask her where they find this medication. Will I need to go to a compounding pharmacy? She says no that the RE should know where to get it. I guess she is assuming that all RE’s have a small pharmacy in their back room that they keep all of this medication in case there is a back order of it. Ha ha!

I have contacted my RE about this unusual problem, and I haven’t heard back from them. I have also contacted another pharmacy that claims they have the generic version of this medication available. So I guess my day on Monday will be spent trying to track down this medication.

Sadly that wasn’t the end of my day though. Maya (our minivan) was suppose to be ready by yesterday at the latest. I called them yesterday afternoon and they said that the minivan will not be ready till Monday afternoon now. It better be ready then because I will need a good day to recuperate from my procedure on Tuesday. I can do things and so on, it isn’t like I will be is severe pain or anything; however when your in mild pain you don’t want to deal with the drivers we have around here, or even the ones where you are I am sure. At least if you can help it.

Anyway that is my little story and drama. Hopefully it will be resolved soon.

I will keep you updated!
Jennifer

One more thing. The results of what we will call the frozen baby:
What should we call our frozen baby?
Frozen baby – 1 vote or 5%
Frozen baby A – 1 vote or 5%
Baby E – 17 votes or 85%
Other (please comment) 1 vote or 5% (we never did find out what this person’s other vote was…)

So I guess we are calling frozen baby, Baby E. Thank you for all those who particpated in our vote.

Jennifer