Thursday, January 14, 2010

Finding the needle in the haystack

Who would have thought it?

Who would have thought it would be so difficult to find a little shot of Twinrix, the vaccine for Hep A&B.
I didn't think it would be until my travel pal, Janet alerted me to her crusade to find Twinrix Jr. for her daughter. She said she called 5 pharmacies.

I called 24...and was told the same thing 24 times  -- it was on back-order.


But, persistence paid off -- the 25th call to a "hole-in-the-wall" pharmacy I didn't even know existed (even though I pass it everyday on my way to school) had the stuff.

It is the smallest pharmacy I've ever seen -- my classroom is bigger.

Happy to report that shot number one was administered today. 

Shot number 2 is on backorder.



3 comments:

Shauna and MacLean said...

Yeah, pays off to be persistent another step closer to your trip of a lifetime.

Jan said...

Wow! Who knew it would be so hard to find something like that??!

We got our first shot last week - fun! :)

Lianne said...

It's all in Mississauga - come and get it on Saturday!