Not the sharpest crayon in the box

This blog is going to be more of a praise today! I am just so thankful that God covers us in ALL THINGS. Even the things that we are unaware of. Although I try my darndest to use all the marbles I have left up in my brain, sometimes I forget that I am not the sharpest crayon in the box. Here was the situation where God totally covered me and filled in for my absent brain cells to which I am so grateful!
You see, last night I realized that my pharmacy made a mistake. While trying to save me & my insurance company some money they sent me the generic drug after I specifically requested over the phone and then sent in a payment for the brand name. Now please understand, I am not a brand name drug snob, but when it comes to maintaining a seizure disorder, the rule of thumb is you don’t mess with what is working! Especially when the consequences of learning that the generic prescription DOESN’T work like the name brand, comes at a pretty steep price. If I were to have a breakthrough seizure, even a mild one, I could injure my kids, myself, crash the car while driving and possible injure whoever was inside my car or whoever I hit with the car, or just plain scare my kids to death! The results of a seizure also means my driving privileges would be legally suspended (on my driving record) for 3 YEARS. As you can guess this means a break in insurance coverage which is spendy. In WA you are not legally suspended and it is more a system of ‘scouts honor’ to not drive for 6 months following a seizure. Not saying that I don’t see the validity in this law, but it just makes those of us who are honest and for the most part very controlled with our seizures punished with those that are not.
After ordering the drug I miraculously found another supply of my meds that I didn’t see before ordering. It was a pretty sizable amount too (1 ½ month supply). So when the new bottle arrived I just put it up and didn’t think twice about it. Didn’t even inspect it, quite honestly. A couple weeks later we ordered some more prescriptions that we didn’t have to pay for since there was a $50 credit on my account? I called and they didn’t really give me a definitive reason why there was a credit. I told myself that I would need to check on it soon but with all the things on my plate, I just forgot. I mentioned to my Dr about the insurance wanting me to try the generic and he explained that it was taking a risk. Although chemically it is the same, the bonding agents can be different which affect absorption, chemical reaction, effectiveness of the delicate balance (I know maybe too much info). I sent in my new script and looked up my account on-line where I spotted the differences between the new prescriptions and the last one filled on my account. I then looked at the bottles and sure enough was the generic name and the the pills were a little but different. However, not different enough to spot when I am half awake taking my meds so PRAISE GOD!. I am just so thankful that God let me in on the secret stash in the back of the cabinet and provided me ample time to figure out this mistake so I didn’t have to figure it out after having a seizure! God is so good!