Vaccines at Walgreens tonight- the LOONS you may encounter [View all]

[Meowmee]

I went for the mmr and DTaP I scheduled tonight. I don’t like this particular one because they are weird however it’s very close. I’m waiting on line. There’s almost no one there. There are four people working there and yet it takes forever to get anything done. The receptionist at the front is more interested in talking to everybody for a long time about personal things than just getting things done quickly while 3-4 people are waiting.

She looks at me and says are you waiting for a pick up? I said no I’m scheduled for 2 vaccines. She says hold on goes away, comes back and says to me “you can’t get two vaccines at once because you’re going to get very very sick…” Wth? I said to her loudly enough so everyone in the store could hear me: “ No, I am not going to get very sick! I’ve been getting two vaccines at once for the past several weeks and I didn’t get “very” sick. You’re crazy!” 😹 in addition their website lets me schedule up to three vaccines at once if I want to.

So she tells me to sit and wait for a while and someone will come to help me. eventually, nobody comes, but someone softly calls my name from the behind the counter. I go over and she’s gathering information from me.At some point, she starts attacking me and grilling me about things. I can’t remember what the first one was now. Then she starts asking what is my reason for getting the DTAP? I told her three times and she couldn’t hear me so I said again loudly enough so everyone in the store could hear, why I was getting it. She tells me to sit and wait again. I got the feeling she was trying to do anything she could to try and stop me from getting any vaccine!

Finally, the woman who is going to give me the vaccines calls me over and we had a somewhat weird conversation, but she seemed ultimately pro Vaccine to me although I don’t know if she was the one who tried to scare me into only getting one vaccine.

She says to me, so why are you here? And I said to her I guess you know why I am here since you have the vials, etc. for my vaccines. 😹 and she says oh well we have to hear you say it so we know you understand what’s going to happen, what the hell?

I said I’m here to get MMR and DTAP. Then I said you can show me them, etc. if you like so I can make sure that you have the right vaccines. 😹

So she shows me the MMR and a vile of solution to dilute it. And the D tap is in a box. First, she gives me I think MMR, which is a 3 mL and which hurts more. And then DTAP which is easy.

I was discussing the vaccines etc. upon her questioning me why I was getting these vaccines and mentioned that there have been outbreaks of measles here due to people not vaccinating their children, but she says “really” and I said yes really. Then I mentioned there was also an outbreak of whooping cough, which she had heard about.

I said the polio vaccine was going to be the hard one because I called CVS and they said they can’t give it to me according to their protocol- so now I have called my doctor and I hope she will approve it for me. I said I am not going to wait until we have a polio outbreak due to the craziness here which she agreed with. I just want to get it now so I don’t have to worry about it.

Anyway, then I thanked her and went on my way. I’m really at a loss for the craziness that I am encountering here. It’s not like I have never encountered craziness in the medical field before, but this is really just getting scarier by the day here.

Not only are they imposing their own personal views of vaccines. They are spreading misinformation and probably scaring people from getting a vaccine at all and not getting two at one time which is safe. They already did that to my brother yesterday because he went there to get RSV and another one and they would only give him the other one, they wouldn’t give him two. And they told him the same story… then they wouldn’t give him RSV at all they said because he didn’t qualify for it. However, he looked it up and said that he did so they told him to come back. I said we are never going back to that particular pharmacy again for a vaccine.

I’m going to be making a complaint. Unfortunately, I did not ask who was the person who said to tell me that I’m going to get very very sick from getting two vaccines at once.

So now I am a little worried if am I going to be able to get the polio vaccine. After this I only have to get shingrix. I just wonder if there are any others that I could be eligible for that I should maybe get as well before March.

So don’t let yourself get bullied and frightened out of getting your vaccines if you encounter people like this.