Walmart / Pharmacy
Pharmacy Switched Prescription Labels for Newborn Son

When my son was born he was put in the hospital at 2 days old due to an infection around his brain and spine, also know as spinal meningitis. After a few weeks he was released and given prescriptions. I went to the wal mart pharmacy in my town and had them filled. The man behind the counter was very nice but in very much a hurry. I took the perscrips. Home and gave them to my son 3 days went by when we noticed he was getting sicker instead of better, so I took him back to the dr. And we found out the prescription labels had been switched and he 3 was ripple overdosing on one med and only getting a quarter of what was needed for the other. As you can imagine I was very very very mad.!!!

So after the dr. S office I went back into wal mart and they told me that the pharmacy was getting ready to close when I had the prescriptions filled and thats prob. Why the man was in a hurry and mixed them up. (I DON'T CARE!) Then they told me when this happens they usually refund the money and give people 5 free prescriptions. Now my first reaction to them was o.K. So your saying you do this a lot! Well she said no but then my next reaction was to let everyone in the line for the pharmacy know what they did, so I got a bit loud and told them you almost killed my newborn son and you actually expect me to take 5 free prescriptions from you idiots when the 2 I paid for you couldn't even get right! So then they had a manager come up and talk to me who just kept shoving a release form in my face to sign. I told him to shove it in his (you know) and told him after I sue him and own the f&ing store he would be fired.

Now I haven't followed through with this because I thought this was a once in a lifetime mistake, but lately I have been hearing a lot of this and some people have actually died. If anyone else out there has ran into this kind of thing let me know. Or if you know a good attorney for this kind of thing please let me know.

Company: Walmart / Pharmacy
Country: USA
State: Michigan
City: Sturgis
Site: walmart.com

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