This move is almost behind us. I did everything I could do yesterday so today’s task is staying out of the way as they number and move boxes, while I try to figure out how to order Prozac for my dog from a Mexican pharmacy. No, I’m not kidding. Our very sweet and smart rescue dog has a tendency toward separation anxiety and adding 40mg of Prozac to his daily routine has helped a lot. However, in the UAE these drugs are difficult enough to get for a human and therefore impossible for a dog.
I was able to get them this past year from a US mail order pharmacy because I found a licensed American vet who said she would write the prescription if I had a way to get the medicine. Unfortunately she has left the practice and we are running out of dog meds, so I need to get some over the summer. Since I won’t have the dog with me I can’t get a prescription, so that leaves me with, “Hola, Mexican pharmacy! Necesito prozac mucho!”
I found myself deep in the underworld of Viagra and Cialis (is that really all people use these online pharmacies for?) and finally found what I needed: generic prozac for under $100 for a year’s supply. Olé! Except when I went to check out, the pharmacy only takes bitcoin as payment. Good grief. What sort of shady operation is this? Did I stumble into the DarkWeb somehow? Now I have to decide if I want to learn how to use bitcoin to buy my dog’s brain meds or if I’m going to learn to put up with a crazy dog instead.
I’m going to run into my own pharmaceutical problem shortly since to get any of the SSRIs here you need a prescription (of course), but the doctor will only write one for 30 days at a time so I would have to go back every month to get a refill. I can’t even. That many appointments is enough to create a crazy person, rather than solve my problem. I’ll get what I can while I’m home and hope to figure out a solution that won’t break me. I draw the line at the Mexican pharmacy though — I have enough trouble staying calm when they switch my generic pills to a different color. I’m not risking my sanity on “muy bien Zolofto.”