{"id":759,"date":"2005-09-13T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-13T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=759"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"sniffles-and-pharmacies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2005\/09\/sniffles-and-pharmacies\/","title":{"rendered":"Sniffles and pharmacies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tired today.<\/p>\n<p>Around 3am last night I woke up sneezing. I got out of bed to blow my nose, and sneezed about a dozen times in the bathroom. This was weird, I have <i>never<\/i> had such a sneezing fit before. I tried going back to bed but kept having to blow my nose and I didn&#8217;t want to wake up Michael. So I curled up on the couch with my blanket, a glass of water, and the box of tissues. It spent about an hour relaxing on the couch, Caligula came up and joined me. I considered taking some Benadryl, but with it being so close to wake-up time I knew it would make things worse for my work day today. Around 4 I figured my nose had stopped running enough to sleep again, so I went back to bed. I didn&#8217;t sleep well, and I really didn&#8217;t want to get out of bed this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Stupid allergies, they&#8217;ve never been this bad.<\/p>\n<p>Which reminds me of pharmacies. For a while I didn&#8217;t have health insurance, and without health insurance prescription medication is outrageously expensive. So I shopped around for my medication, ended up going to Skippack Pharmacy. It was a bit out of the way, but I was supporting a local business and paying less.<\/p>\n<p>Now I have prescription coverage in my health plan, so it doesn&#8217;t matter where I go. I fully intended to continue going to Skippack Pharmacy, fighting the traffic on 73 to get there. But I keep getting bad vibes from them. The last time I called to ask about a prescription, both women I spoke with were short with me, even though I was very nice. In the past I&#8217;ve been waited on by clerks who were taking a personal calls while ringing up my sale, or chattering with a co-worker the whole time. This sort of thing bugs me, and makes me feel like I&#8217;m wasting my time trying to support a local business if they&#8217;re going to treat their customers with such indifference.<\/p>\n<p>I should just use the prescriptions by-mail program that is included with my insurance, then I wouldn&#8217;t need to leave the house at all (and buying 3 months at a time is slightly cheaper).<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m going to the soda machine to get a Coke before I fall asleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tired today. Around 3am last night I woke up sneezing. I got out of bed to blow my nose, and sneezed about a dozen times in the bathroom. This was weird, I have never had such a sneezing fit before. I tried going back to bed but kept having to blow my nose and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}