I am 8 months pregnant. I was having horrible back pain and cramps. I went to the hospital Thursday 19th at 12am. After almost 3 hours of uncomfortably waiting, they found I had a really bad bladder infection. They wrote me a prescription at this Walgreens even though it is not close to our house since it was a 24 hour pharmacy. We drove out of our way to it.
My husband waits in line behind 1 woman. It had been about an hour since the hospital called in my antibiotics so the prescription should be filled and this should only take a minute. As soon as the woman is done and he walks to window, the pharmacist says she has to go on break and would be back in an hour. It is 3am! My husband tells her I was in a lot of pain, so much pain I could not stop throwing up. And I needed this medication asap. He told her I was very uncomfortable sitting in the car and could not wait an hour. He told her I was sick and needed the medicine to start working so it would not affect the health of our baby. He told her I needed the antibiotics in my system asap. He told her it was the middle of the night and he needed to get me home and in bed. He told her it would only take a minute. He was the only customer waiting and the prescription had been called in a long time ago. She said she had to go on break and would not help him and closed the window on him.
My husband came to the car and told me we had to sit in the car and wait an hour to get my medicine. I was in so much pain and I was so tired after being up all night in a hospital. I can't believe the pharmacist would not have mercy on me and help us out. I called the store to speak to the pharmacist since she closed the window. The pharmacy voicemail said it was closed (weird since it is a 24 hour pharmacy). I then called the store and asked to speak to the manager. Nicole spoke with me. I told her what just happened. She told me she was there when it happened and that the pharmacist had to take a break so she didn't go over her hours. I told her there was no one in line after my husband and that it would only take a minute. I told her how much pain I was in, how pregnant I was, and how tired I was. She said she couldn't do anything. I asked her why do they advertise 24 hour pharmacy when they close for an hour? I told her we came out of our way to this Walgreens only because it was 24 hours! If we knew they closed we would have driven to a different pharmacy. Nicole the manager just said, "I can't do anything, I don't know what to say, I can't help you, we can't afford to have 2 pharmacists on". She was no help at all. So we have to wait, in pain, till 4am. My doctor said the infection was so bad it could have started premature labor. I needed those antibiotics really bad. Once we did finally get the antibiotics the pharmacist was very rude.
This pharmacy has no sympathy to sick people in pain. They lie and say they are open 24 hours when they are not. That is false advertising. They are rude and selfish. I will never go to this or probably any Walgreens for fear of this happening again. I think corporate should not let them advertise 24 pharmacy if they are not. I think the people who work at a pharmacy should be more merciful to sick people in pain and not so worried about waiting to eat their lunch for 3 extra minutes. This could have made me go in to premature labor or affected the health of me or my baby. I can't believe people could be so horrible.
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