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Saturday, June 17, 2006

We finally found the antibiotic and Yeah!! for CVS!

Dh first went to Costco for the prescription in hopes of getting a good price. They wanted $80 for the name brand version and didn't have the generic. The second stop didn't have either in stock so he went to our local CVS. They had the generic but they wanted close to $80 for it. Dh pointed out that he could pay that for the *name* brand at Costco. He said he didn't make a huge deal but grumbled a little and then just told them to fill it because we needed it and he wasn't go back to Costco. After a couple of minutes they called him back and the pharmacist said they had called Costco and would match their price on the generic so we saved about $20 which was nice. Normally I hate that CVS because I've always been treated so rudely there, especially the pharmacy, but kudos to them to match the price.

I looked the antibiotic up on line. It's pretty cool how it works. It interferes with the bacteria making a cell wall and basically all the bacteria just kind of disolve. Wikipedia also gave a pretty interesting history on how this was discovered(in a sewer in the late 1800's and it inhibited the growth of Typhoid). This one antibiotic is considered 3rd generation from there but it's was neat. Antibiotics are very cool things.

1 Comments:

At 5:59 AM, June 18, 2006 , Blogger Suzanne said...

If it's Zithromax (you had mentioned it started with a Z), and I KNOW how expensive Zithromax is, but it was the ONLY antibiotic that finally worked on DS when he was younger. I remember just about dying when I found out the cost (at that time we had to pay 20%).

GOOD LUCK and it will kick in soon!
Suz

 

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