Kickdrum Beating in My Chest Again (Alternate Version)

Chapter 111

!!!!!!!!!!Author's Note!!!!!!!!!!

Hello Everyone! Happy Friday (I know, I'm late). I hope everyone had a good week. Mine was pretty normal. We are getting ready to go out in our travel trailer tomorrow. My husband really wanted to go somewhere, even though everywhere is going to be animal house. That's partially why I'm late updating.

The other part was because I was arguing with my pharmacy that fills one of my medications and then sends it to my house. Here's some of the back story. This is the only medication I fill with them. It is an injectable medication that requires refrigeration. At the beginning of the month, they sent me my meds for the month and the box holding the injector pens was opened. I called them, sent pics, and discussed the problem with them. They told me I had to go to the manufacturer because it left their pharmacy intact. I did that, sent pics and discussed it with them and we were waiting to hear back. It had been a while since I'd heard anything so I called them and they told me my claim was rejected because it happened in transit and I had to contact the pharmacy to get it. Well the pharmacy argued with the manufacturer for a while and then finally agreed to send out a replacement for my opened medication. I knew we were heading into a holiday weekend and wanted to make sure I'd receive it before I left on my trip. This was at the beginning of the week. Well they finally agree to send out my medication yesterday and it was supposed to arrive Friday. I specifically asked them NOT to put a signature required on the package because I didn't want any issues. None of my deliveries with them had ever come with a signature required. They would leave it on my porch, send me a text, email, and phone call when it was delivered and then i would grab it and put it in the my fridge. Well, that didn't happen and they came while I was sleeping and left the note on my door. I called the pharmacy company and told them what happened, was on the phone for over an hour getting bounced around to multiple people and the last person told me that they'd put in a request to waive the signature and that the carrier (UPS) was going to attempt a second delivery this afternoon. They said the request probably won't have gone through at that point, so I had to stay home waiting for this package that never came. Come 3 pm, I check the tracking and now it says I will get it on Tuesday. I call the pharmacy again, was on the phone for another hour and was assured that the delivery driver was on break and that he would return and make that second attempt. I call UPS and ask what's going on when the guy's break is over and they tell me that it won't be delivered until Tuesday because the driver had returned and clocked out. Remember, this is a medication that has to be refrigerated. If it sits in a warehouse until Tuesday, it will be bad. I also have to TAKE IT on Tuesday so I have no wiggle room. It goes on for much longer, but in the end, I finally got to talk to the person at the facility who had it on his desk while talking to me and told me that there was no way to get it to me until Tuesday. They assured me that it would be refrigerated until Tuesday, which I don't buy for one second, so I told them if I get this medication, take it and get sick, that I'd be suing them. He tried to flounder for a while after that and then magically found a driver that would deliver it to me yet today. So, the moral of the story is don't stop until you get what you want and in this case need! Then, since I'd stayed home all day, I had to do all the stuff I was supposed to do this afternoon after that, pack and then I had to shower, which takes a while because of my surgery. It's getting better, but yeah. THAT was why I was so late updating today.

Anyways, back to the story. This week, Joe's screams from Brad feeding on him wake up Patrick, Brad realized he fed to long when Joe doesn't wake up, Joe wakes up and Brad tells him what happened, and Brad takes him back to his cell. Patrick runs over to him and asks Brad what happened. Brad shares and then tries to goad Patrick by asking him if he heard Joe's screams. Patrick doesn't take the bait and turns it around on him. Patrick tends to Joe and then Brad returns with the chains to take Patrick to his meeting with his lawyer. Patrick fights back, Brad drugs him, and then takes him to his appointment.