Saturday, June 7, 2008

Bumpy Road (and we haven't even left yet)

Well, it seems Murphy is ever vigilant!

One of our biggest issues with extended travel is dealing with prescription meds. All it took was one little error by a doctor in writing a prescription, and it set off a chain reaction of problems. It didn't help that the mail order pharmacy that we have to deal with also made a series of mistakes. We think that we will have everything under control before we leave Tuesday morning. We are still not sure how we will handle prescriptions while we are in Canada. Our mail order pharmacy won't mail into Canada, and Canadian pharmacies can't fill prescriptions written by US doctors. So if you are planning extended travel outside the USA, make sure you know how you are going to get medications!

Barbara also had an optometrist write an incorrect prescription for eyeglasses. After another visit (to a different optometrist), we are still waiting for new eyeglasses. We expect to pick them up enroute as we head out Tuesday morning. Again, it is best to not leave things like this to the last minute!

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