Drama @ the Neighborhood CVS

After running out of my awesomely sized and coated-for-ease-of-swallowing prenatal vitamin samples I had to have a prescription called in. Anxious to see how much these puppies were going to cost, we whipped through the drive through on the way home after work.

NOTE: There are two things that make me anxious when doing them with my ever-so-price-sensitive husband - one is hearing the total for groceries and the other is hearing the cost of prescription meds. With a sigh of relief and a great $10 deal later,

we were pulling around the building when I made Justin come to an
abrupt stop. The gargantuan, hideous, black, monstrosity I was holding between my fingers which dwarfed my hand and made my throat begin to swell at the mere sight of it was not my prenatal vitamin.

Between gags, I told Justin to park...I was going in. As I hurried back to the pharmacy,

my pulse raced as all the horror stories from recent new mothers
of humongous prenatal pills came shrieking back to me complete with the screeching sound effects to stress their advice of requesting chewable pills.

I was trying to remain calm, assuring myself that it was a simple generic substitution but

between the thought of attempting to swallow that gruesomely black horse pill of death and Justin fretting and asking me how much exactly
I was prepared to spend on the name-brand pill

I could feel my throat going dry.

I took a deep breath as I approached the counter and calmly asked if I could find out the cost of the name-brand version of the pills I just picked up. Of course, they couldn't give me the cost with insurance - they couldn't even tell me whether or not my insurance would cover the name brand.

I held my breath as they looked up the information and glanced over my shoulder to see Justin who wisely decided to stand back by the magazines.

"Cash price is $37, ma'am."

Yes - there is a prenatal angel!

"I'll take it," I almost yelled, like I'd won a prescription bingo or something, "and please do whatever it is you need to do with these frightening looking things."

Needless to say, the pharmacist looked at me very strangely but I did manage to get my account flagged to ask my preference for generic or name brand on prenatal vitamins. :)