waited too long with ordering a new batch of hrt. my prescription (patches) is almost out of stock all over the country. there's like 5-6 pharmacies nationwide that we've found that still have anything in stock, and the closest of those is like a 5-6 hour drive away (we do not have access to a car rn). we've ordered a delivery for our local pharmacy, but we have no clue when in the fuckery when/if it's going to arrive. we have enough patches for.... one more week.
fuck. fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.
literally the "most straightforward" way to solve this problem would be a weekend trip through to svalbard. it's like the only pharmacy we found that has like less than a 6-hour bus ride one way [mid-posting edit: ok if we get that desperate there suddenly popped up another pharmacy that's incredibly easier for us to reach (about an hour's train and then under 30-ish minutes of local train/bus jumping in an area we're quite familiar with all the way up until the last km or two of travel), that's a way easier and cheaper solution than a casual weekend trip to the arctic circle. ok worst panic over, still gonna post this because we already wrote all this and shoutout to medicine for just being like "we're only gonna have stock of this in like five tiny corners of this country!"]
ok. ok ok ok. we might get to sort this out. at least our pulse is almost back down to normal pace. this is a mess, and half of that's thanks to us, but we might have found a way out. no more updates until we know stuff for sure (a lot of moving parts going on rn), but. we're down to only a little panic. a massive improvement. kweh.
(also we did briefly consider imports, but that not only has same core problem (delivery wait time) but national border cops are incredibly strict about anything medical being imported, so that would just be at immediate risk of being yeeted and we'd be back at square one with less time)
we were able to order through that other location mentioned, and that should just be a quick day trip one of these next days. phew. (apologies for not updating earlier, we were busy having "we can get more e in time" celebratory pizza)