Book of Days…

I’ve worked in a pharmacy for a couple years now. (How time flies…) Work there is always interesting because retail is innately interesting. About three weeks ago, we received a prescription for Oxycontin 80MG #90. Now, Oxycontin is some seriously heavy pain medication and 80mg is as high as it gets. A dosing of three times a day like that would be fatal to you or I since we haven’t built up any type of tolerance. You’re not going to be on this kind of dosing unless you’re a cancer patient or in end stage renal disease or have multiple schlerosis or something like that. The point is that if you’re really in need of this, then there would be plenty of activity as far as prescription history goes prior to it. And here is a girl waltzing in with a prescription with no prior medical history, wanting to purchase them all out of pocket (about $480 dollars!!). Highly suspicious. So my pharmacist called to verify the prescription and found out it was a forgery. A really good one! We called the police because the doctor ordered it, but these people are really smart, and we didn’t expect her to return to pick up the prescription. True enough, she didn’t. Once the police came in to formally write up a report, they sequestered a picture of her from the video cameras and we were given a copy in case she did come back. My pharmacist thought it would be funny to paste a text bubble next to this photo that said "Oh Dan you’re so hot when you fill oxycontin" -_-;;; People loved it, and so I had the displeasure of staring at her picture every day "saying" that I’m hot for the past few weeks. Yesterday, I was covering the drop-off window where patients drop off their prescriptions when a familiar face came to the window. IT WAS HER!!! And surprise, she had another prescription for Oxycontin. I look up and did my best fake smile and excused myself to "check stock" ._.; and quickly went to my pharmacist whispering "it’s her. call 911". Then it was time to pretend I was a fumbling idiot who typed slow…anything to keep her there long enough for the police to arrive. My pharmacist couldn’t walk away or do anything suspicious, so he seriously called 911 right in her line of sight. I could hear what he was saying, so I bet she could have too. I decided to prevent that by diverting her attention to my voice and million questions that become kind of stupid as I started to run out XD (would you like child safety caps? can I have an alternate phone number in case we cant reach you? did you know we also used to have a staff member with the same last name?). I had only taken some 5-6 minutes when it became obvious that I couldn’t keep her any longer. I told her it’d be ready in 5 minutes if she’d wait, but she declined, perhaps sensing something wrong, and left for the door. I asked a coworker to quickly remove her pharmacy smock jacket as to not be obvious and quickly run to grab her license plates as she drove off. Apparently she had two african american "drivers" and as soon as she slipped into the back seat of the car, a buttload of police blockaded the car and came out with their guns drawn!!!! WOAH. That was fast! They arrested all three and blocked some 2-3 rows of cars from being able to leave the parking lot for at least a couple hours. Now, let’s pray that I don’t leave an evening shift at night one day and have retaliatory "visitors" @_@