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"I kept track." Eventually she obtained the necessary form, while the pharmacy gave the patient five days of drugs.

Ina Storer, the Cranston woman who needs 25 medications, has also spent a lot of time on the phone.

She called her drug plan, and she called Medicare, and she called the state Department of Elderly Affairs.

By late yesterday, she still had not straightened out her problem, but her pharmacy did agree to send "a couple of pills" to hold her over.

"This is making me very sick," Storer said.

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