OTC but only at the pharmacy
I caught a cold the other day. Not that big a deal except finding medications down here isn't as easy as it is in the US. First of all, everything is different. There's no Nyquil or Sudafed or any of the other medicines I know. They have equivalents down here but I actually have to work to find out what they are. So, I go the medicine aisle in the grocery store where I work and don't see what I'm looking for. I see the Sudafedish ones and the Tylenol Cold types. But there's no Nyquil type stuff or really much of anything else. Turns out that you can't buy most kinds of medications at the grocery store. You have to go the pharmacy. This stuff isn't prescription. It's just not available anywhere but at the pharmacy.
Having grown up in the Walmart culture where everything under the sun is available at a one-stop shop, this baffles me. Why would you only allow certain meds to be sold at the pharmacy but not the grocery store? I don't really know except maybe they can charge more for them. It's expensive to buy OTC stuff down here. Once you get at least a two year visa, you can get on the national healthcare and prescriptions are very cheap. But until then, we have to pay top dollar for the OTC stuff.
My cold is better but I sure do miss my Nyquil. That stuff'll kill any bug.
Having grown up in the Walmart culture where everything under the sun is available at a one-stop shop, this baffles me. Why would you only allow certain meds to be sold at the pharmacy but not the grocery store? I don't really know except maybe they can charge more for them. It's expensive to buy OTC stuff down here. Once you get at least a two year visa, you can get on the national healthcare and prescriptions are very cheap. But until then, we have to pay top dollar for the OTC stuff.
My cold is better but I sure do miss my Nyquil. That stuff'll kill any bug.