So here's the start to my alleged blizzard weekend: wake up Saturday, and there's no snow yet. I had to phone in an order to the vet to ask for a refill Rx of 100 syringes, with no drug to go with it. My vial of insulin is perhaps 1/3 used for my cat, so I still have plenty of that left, but I was down to four syringes. Since there is a CVS pharmacy on my way home from the vet, which I have to visit anyway to pick up a case of Purina DM (diabetes management) cat food, I had them phone in the Rx for the syringes there, but CVS has no previous record of her on file. God only knows what the pharmacist is going to think when I show up to buy syringes, but no insulin to go with it... Her original Rx for both was at a different pharmacy one town away.

The vet's assistant estimated it'd be an hour or two before the Rx was ready, so I sit and wait here, have another mug of coffee, etc. So far, the snow hasn't hit. There's no point in driving over there to the vet to get the case of cat food before the pharmacy can have my 100-pack of needles ready for me to pick up. The vet and CVS are roughly half a mile apart, with the vet being the furthest away from my house. I have to drive past the pharmacy anyway to get to and from the vet, but that strip mall is not easy to pull out of, into traffic, unless I'm extremely patient and wait for someone to take pity on me and wave me on in front of them while the light's red, anyway.

Here's a link to the whole procedure I have to perform on my poor old fart kitty every evening after her dinner. The pictures there speak louder than words. Fortunately, she's a really good kitty, and I'm very quick about it, so she doesn't even flinch. She only needs two units a day, not the 17-18 you see in the syringe picture above, so even though a thumb-sized vial of insulin costs ~ $80, it lasts a long time.

[edit--I finally got her syringes from the original pharmacy this afternoon. Phew!]