Prescription is FILLED!

Something I've never posted or discussed here before was getting a prescription filled.

My inhaler was running quite low - so I asked the nurse when I last visited if I could have a refill by her.  Not all nurses are able to sign for a prescription - she being one of them.  So she advised me when the doctor was in and told me when to come in to swing by and get my prescription.

And this is what it looks like:

I blocked off my full name and security ID# for privacy purposes - but at least this way, you can see what a prescription here looks like!

When you bring this paper in (don't forget your Kela card!) to the pharmacy, they'll stamp the date, initial it and add a sticker label from your prescription onto this prescription.

Don't throw this prescription out!  Keep it if you have more than 1 prescription listed - or refills available to you! (If you can see it - I have a total of 3 inhalers available to me - 2 are refills).  That, and if you need a doctor to fill your prescription again, it's easier and faster for them to fill one out if you have proof that you've had this issued to you before hand.

A typical prescription filled by my doctor looks like a piece of stationary (a longer form of a Post-It note almost) with the doctor's office on the top, my doctor's messy writing (aren't all doctors messy writers?) and her stamp.

Finland clearly thought of the doctors messy penmanship and this is a nicer and easier form to use and read!

** On the off chance you forgot your Kela (benefits card) at home while at the pharmacy, ask the pharmacist for a Kela form - and submit your receipt and prescription copy (along with the filled out form) to Kela - and they'll credit your bank account that way.  I've done it once and it didn't take very long at all!**