Posting for traffic - DD forgot her medication and we’re at the airport

[VeryGoodVeryNice]

My DD (age 19) forgot both to take her antidepressant this morning, and to bring them with her. We’re about to board the plane to Amsterdam, going for a week. I tried phoning 111 and my GP, but neither could help (we were already through security).

Is there anything we can do when we get there to get an emergency prescription for her? If not the holiday is going to be a write off, I know from previous experience of her missing a day or two she gets awful withdrawals, and her dose has been upped recently so I’d imagine it’s going to be even worse. I realise any option is probably going to cost £££££ but I’d rather pay and save the holiday if possible.

The excess, in my experience, is more than the cost of sorting abroad.

Why didn’t you check them then? Sounds like she wasn’t capable

My aunt, a full grown married woman forgot her passport. These things happen.

What a helpful post.

I found the Dutch to be empathetic and helpful - they treated me at once when I needed antibiotics. Try going to the nearest hospital to ask for help

Sorry there’s been so many knobbers on this thread. Hope
you get it sorted OP.

My husband left his anti-depressants as well as a mood stabaliser at home last year and like your daughter it's very noticeable when he doesn't take them when we went to Amsterdam, we couldn't get what we needed over the weekend at all and family we were staying with advised we'd probably still really struggle unless we had a copy of his prescription on the Monday. So we drove to France on their advice and it was sorted by a pharmacist there within 10 mins, but absolute waste of a day. Wouldn't have been so bad as a one off but he did the same thing two years earlier in the UAE as well!

Of course it's possible to forget to take medication on holiday, or on any trip away from home! It's very easily done. Don't be so smug.

I regularly have to go away from home. Not just on holiday, I have to go and visit my elderly mother too. I have 8 items on repeat prescription that I have to take every day. Whilst I have fortunately rarely forgotten any, it did happen recently and I had to go to a pharmacy in my mother's town to get a few days emergency supply.

Jeez we wonder why children / teens have such a hard time at school with bullying etc
when there is parents like in this thread raising them 🙈

Yes encourage people to lie, great

Just because my son is capable of getting in a taxi and back to an airport doesn't mean he was bullied or had a shit childhood...

There was a drip feed.... Much later on the OP mentioned her daughter's disability...after the very reasonable suggestion that more than one person suggested that the DD could go home and join them later. Other people even suggested it too...

Then people kept going on and on and on at me.

So you're at the airport with your 19 year old and realise something has been forgotten...you'd seriously get on the plane and just be like, righto, phone a taxi, see you whenever you get there?

The added info doesn't change anything for me though. I wouldn't send my DH home to get meds, book another flight and then meet us at a later point! The drip feed was in Reponses to being harangued (by you) and is not the classic MN dripfeed anyway , since we already knew the DP has depression, which, in ad of itself , is debilitating.

The much more sensible advice revolves around what heath care services in Holland can do to help.

I don't know how close you think everyone lives to airports.

God, last year , my 21 year old lost his phone, wallet, cash cards and money in a nightclub! I know someone who left their child behind once on holiday!!

Yes.

Why wouldn't he do that? What else would you suggest?

If there was time for us all to go back, then yeah, we'd probably all go.

But if there isn't time why would we all go home, when he can just go back and come along on the next flight? If he can get himself to Italy on the train to visit some family at 18, he can get a taxi to our house at 19.

Nice. Very empathetic towards a young person with mental health problems.

Seriously ????

The OP asked about emergency prescriptions. It was a clear ask. You ignored her advice and provided unsolicited irrelevant feedback. And were snide about it.

You are aware whilst being all high and mighty that all of that would cost considerably more than just sorting an emergency prescription on arrival yes?

I thought her going to get it might be an option too but then read the update and realised it wasnt

I'm not even sure they let you back out of the airport without an enormous hoo ha once you are airside...

I don’t think there was a drip feed - 100mg o/d of Sertraline is not an insignificant dose and it’s clear from the OP and the second post that @VeryGoodVeryNice‘s DD has her struggles.

I have two very different young adults, an 18 year old who has taken himself off round the world and would have no problems sorting this problem out for himself. I also have a 21 year old DD who has quite significant struggles and needs more support. They have the same parents so my conclusion is that this is not about superior parenting, but about individual difference. It’s an absolute waste of time to come on to this thread and say “my DC could sort this out so why can’t yours?”. It’s not offering help, it’s being a bit of cunt.