getting medz.

Okay, so getting medicine today was quite an insane experience. First, I tried to go to a couple pharmacies to ask them for some medz, but they told me i needed a prescription...I enlisted the aid of of Ummo (uncle) Rashad who met me at the University of Jordan at noon. We walked to Al-Isra' hospital where I spoke to a woman who told me she couldn't give me a prescription, but she knew a guy who could. we took a cab to this office building to meet this guy, but he wasn't there. We were told he would be back between 4 and 6. we didn't want to wait around for 4 hours so we left and had coffee at the city mall and went to a pharmacy. The pharmacy people told us to go to istishari hospital because they have the medicine. we went there and they directed us to another hospital in Shmeisani. I was exhausted by the time we got to this hospital, and then some doctor guy told me they didn't have these drugs in jordan at all...and i was like...are you kidding me? i've been running around this city all day, and now you telling me you don't have the medicine i need. i was so annoyed...i felt like i was on a really lame scavenger hunt. ugh, that guy sucked, but my Ummo Rashad was not about to give up. He opened some sort of secret door at the hospital where these two guys were chilling smoking cigarettes. apparently my uncle knew one of the guys so we chilled there for a while and my uncle filled him in on my situation. my uncle told me he has friends like this at all the hospitals. this guy spoke english which was nice. he made some phone calls and it seemed like i was going to be able to get my medicine, even though the other doctor told me they didn't have it in Jordan. i gave this guy my insurance card...and he looked at me like i was an idiot...and he's like no. you don't need this. go outside and there is a building and on the second floor is dr. mahmoud abu someone, and he will give you the recipe...and i was like okay this sounds super sketchy, but whatevs. give me the recipe...anyway, i roll over to this guy's "office" and chat with him for a while. he was pretty cool. he didn't really ask me much about medical issues, he randomly asked me if i was depressed. and i was like. no?...anyway, he gave me a prescription and it was marked like "special" and "danger" ahahah. which i thought was hilarious. i took it to the pharmacy...and 6 hours after my journey started, i had my medicine! i really wish i would have taken a pic of my prescription before i filled it because the guy at the pharmacy wouldn't give it back to me, and it was really funny. oh well. The Dr. gave me his cell phone number, and he was like, "call me if you need anything." if i get anything else, I will take a picture. anyway, after that i got coffee with my uncle again. overall, crazy exhausting, hilarious day. my ummo rashad is great. he's the bomb, like tick tick.