19th July, 2024.
Right … it’s Friday … and I have a problem …
I was due to start my new medication, today.
The 2.5mg doses of Mounjaro: in what the manufacturer, Eli Lilly, call a Kwikpen.
You have a pen filled with so many doses of the drug, you screw on a disposable needle, you inject yourself with the meds … then unscrew the needle, and shove it in a sharps bin.
The Ozempic?
You get the disposable needles with the pens.
The Trulicity I’ve used?
The needles are built into the pens.
The Mounjaro, by contrast?
I’ve opened my first box of the stuff, this morning.
To find it doesn’t come with the needed needles.
I’ve phoned my local pharmacists, obviously.
Apparently?
You need to get the needles prescribed separately … !
I’m going into my surgery, today: to arrange for an emergency prescription.
But, as you can imagine … ?
I’m not bloody happy.
And wish someone had mentioned this!
~≈Ω≈~
I’m not happy.
Obviously.
Neither’s a lot of the planet.
Seemingly, there’s a lot of computer outages going on, today: that many say is being caused by issues with Microsoft products and services.
I’m …
I’m a long term Mac user: and going to get mildly smug about that.
But also … ?
Mildly sympathetic.
It’s possibly not the time to paraphrase Murphy’s Law:
“If anything can go wrong, it will go wrong, at the worst possible time.”
~≈Ω≈~
