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Tess
Here is the skinny on getting a DND prescription filled filled in Toronto. There a a few and I mean few pharmacies that will honour the card we are issued. The best bet is the Drug store at Keele and Sheppard. In the event the pharmacy at the Denison bldg is closed or cannot fill your need, you are pretty well pooched. My own experience was really frightening. I had heart surgery in July 05 (shredded my valve in the BiH) and was released from the hospital on a Sunday. I went to several pharmacies that day to fill a number of prescriptions lots of drugs after the big zipper. Nobody and I mean nobody had ever dealt with the CF and the card. I do not mind saying I was getting pretty stressed until I got home and my local guy here in Brooklin gave me the drugs (after my wife explained the sit and I showed him the scar) to hold me over for a few days, I was hurting big time. by the way really illegal but a real gent and first class human being. It took 4 days and a number of phone calls to get my pharmacy on line stress buddy I didn't need. Thank god for she who must be obeyed Mrs J who works in medicine (knows what to say and what buttons to push) she kept me calm and helped me a lot by doing the calls and dealing with the CF Med pers, Blue Cross and the Pharmacy. I cannot imagine what it would be like for a young troop without the support I had. BNefore anyone says it no I did not go to Shoppers Drug Mart.
Straight up re the Wounded Warrior Fund assisting on this issue no can do, nor can anyone else incl the MIR it seems. It is an issue that needs to be looked into. I am doing my best for the chap I look after as he will be home within a month (fingers crossed). All I can do as an AO is make his Dad aware and recce a Drug store in his home town and get them on line with the CF plan.
The moral of the story is for the guys recovering outside a CF sphere of influence your level of support isn't the same.
Captain J
Tess
Here is the skinny on getting a DND prescription filled filled in Toronto. There a a few and I mean few pharmacies that will honour the card we are issued. The best bet is the Drug store at Keele and Sheppard. In the event the pharmacy at the Denison bldg is closed or cannot fill your need, you are pretty well pooched. My own experience was really frightening. I had heart surgery in July 05 (shredded my valve in the BiH) and was released from the hospital on a Sunday. I went to several pharmacies that day to fill a number of prescriptions lots of drugs after the big zipper. Nobody and I mean nobody had ever dealt with the CF and the card. I do not mind saying I was getting pretty stressed until I got home and my local guy here in Brooklin gave me the drugs (after my wife explained the sit and I showed him the scar) to hold me over for a few days, I was hurting big time. by the way really illegal but a real gent and first class human being. It took 4 days and a number of phone calls to get my pharmacy on line stress buddy I didn't need. Thank god for she who must be obeyed Mrs J who works in medicine (knows what to say and what buttons to push) she kept me calm and helped me a lot by doing the calls and dealing with the CF Med pers, Blue Cross and the Pharmacy. I cannot imagine what it would be like for a young troop without the support I had. BNefore anyone says it no I did not go to Shoppers Drug Mart.
Straight up re the Wounded Warrior Fund assisting on this issue no can do, nor can anyone else incl the MIR it seems. It is an issue that needs to be looked into. I am doing my best for the chap I look after as he will be home within a month (fingers crossed). All I can do as an AO is make his Dad aware and recce a Drug store in his home town and get them on line with the CF plan.
The moral of the story is for the guys recovering outside a CF sphere of influence your level of support isn't the same.
Captain J