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too exciting, sometime either Diablo or I (or both) end up checking our eye- lids for cracks. During the summer, we pray for no afternoon thunder- shower activity, ‘cause if there is any, WGME-TV, channel 13 will wait until Judge Judy is about to explain and deliver her verdict and then they’ll interrupt her show for a nearly endless lecture on the well-known perils of thundershowers. The in- terruption is always pref- aced with, “We’ll let you get back to Judge Judy in a minute” but we are never back in a minute or even in time for her ver- dict. This practice drives us crazy. Fortunately, an hour later Judge Judy’s program is repeated on WBZ-TV, channel 4, sans the interruption for the thunderstorm lecture. I’ve now joined the se-
niors who are covered by Medicare. Diabetics such as myself also have 80% of their diabetic test- ing supplies covered as well. That’s what they tell you anyway. I always
wondered how it was that Wilford Brimley (yes, I too thought his name was Wilfred) could have a full time job hawking diabetic testing supplies on TV. I’m beginning to under- stand the economics of that now! First, I called a local pharmacy in Wolfe- boro, to price some test strips for a new meter that I’d gotten for free with a coupon at that same pharmacy. Test strips for my current meter, which has developed some in- termittent digit segments in its display, have been costing me $42.00 per 100, including shipping. First the local pharmacy
told me that they didn’t carry the test strips for the meter that I’d gotten there. When I groused about that, the person in the pharmacy said that maybe they were “up front” and left the phone line to look. When she came back on the line, she reported that they were $130.00 for a box of 100. Bad as that seemed, I fig- ured I could get a quick supply with my doctor’s prescription, my Medicare Card and $26.00 for my 20% share. (I brought along my new meter to be sure I got the correct strips.) And so, “armed” with those things, I drove to the pharmacy. Once at the pharmacy, I stood be- hind the “red line” where pharmacy customers are compelled to wait. Stand-
ing at the register was a very nice woman, no one I knew, but I could just tell. I presented my prescrip-
tion, my Medicare card and asked for the test strips. A pharmacist at the far end of the counter hollered out that, “we’d have to order those.” In my loud, clear, public speaking voice, I protested that I had just called and that if they weren’t in stock how come I wasn’t told that? Meanwhile, the nice woman at the register was quietly studying the box with my new meter in it. Then she went to a shelf behind the coun- ter in the pharmacy and came forward with the “out of stock” test strips! Isn’t that amazing? Next the friendly pharmacist shouted out that it would take 40 minutes to fill my prescription! There were nothing but employees in the vicinity of the phar- macy counter, I was alone behind the red line. “Forty minutes to sell
me one box of test strips?” was my incredulous re- sponse. I was assured that it was going to take 40 minutes and so I said I’d wait, but that I was overdue for my lunch. (I hadn’t allowed for all this time, stupid me and diabetics need to eat on schedule!) I took a seat in the waiting area. Shortly, the nice lady emerged
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