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Thank you, Clairz. It's a tough fight, (as are all cancer battles), but we remain hopeful. How is your friend doing?
She is back home and doing well, but I can see we aren't done with the prescription pill problems. The doctors in Roswell changed her prescriptions around, took her off her old pills and started her on new ones, giving her only enough pills for a week. The problem is that she needs to see a psychiatrist here to write a prescription to continue the new pills and it is very hard to get an appointment with the only psychiatrist in town.
So, she could very well run out of pills before being seen by a doctor and we could start the whole cycle over again. I naively thought that keeping track of the prescriptions on a database would solve the problem, but it's actually much more complicated (and almost a self-perpetuating cycle).
She is back home and doing well, but I can see we aren't done with the prescription pill problems. The doctors in Roswell changed her prescriptions around, took her off her old pills and started her on new ones, giving her only enough pills for a week. The problem is that she needs to see a psychiatrist here to write a prescription to continue the new pills and it is very hard to get an appointment with the only psychiatrist in town.
So, she could very well run out of pills before being seen by a doctor and we could start the whole cycle over again. I naively thought that keeping track of the prescriptions on a database would solve the problem, but it's actually much more complicated (and almost a self-perpetuating cycle).
If you explain things to your GP or FP, then he/she might write you a script for enough pills to tide your friend over. Not being able to see a psychiatrist in time is an unfortunately common problem.
If you explain things to your GP or FP, then he/she might write you a script for enough pills to tide your friend over. Not being able to see a psychiatrist in time is an unfortunately common problem.
And naturally the situation is further complicated by the fact that her GP has just moved out of town and she hasn't been in to see the new doctor yet. Well, we're retired, so we have all day every day to get things worked out!
And naturally the situation is further complicated by the fact that her GP has just moved out of town and she hasn't been in to see the new doctor yet. Well, we're retired, so we have all day every day to get things worked out!
~Clair
It seems like these complications always occur -- Murphy's Law as applied to mental health. What did we do before we retired?
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How is your friend doing?
