Wanted: French Drug Dealer

Ciara's horse has a little bit of osteoarthritis in one of his feet, and was being treated with a miracle drug (called Tildren) when he was still in Boise. The drug was actually correcting the problem, and allowing regrowth of new, healthy bone tissue. The problem is that Tildren is not approved in the United States (making it very difficult to come by...especially in Utah for some reason). We've been on a quest in the past month or two to find some. We've tried to find connections through old friends, vets in Utah and Idaho, and even random veterinary college professors accross the country...all to little avail. A few days ago I had a little "Cory, you're an idiot" moment, and thought "hey...why not just call the manufacturer of the drug (Ceva Santé Animale). They'll know how to get it here...plus, you speak French if you need it." I then discovered they had a new office in the US, so I gave them a call (which led to a giant chain reaction).

The operator transferred me to Karen, who referred me to Dr. Creech. Dr. Creech sent my inquiry on to Monsieur Bartholomy, "Ceva Regional Director of North America." M. Bartholomy told me to get in touch with they're favorite distributer in the UK. John the Brittish distributer was more than happy to send us a bunch of the stuff (as long as we paid him a healthy sum and had a letter from the FDA saying it was ok). John gave me the phone number of the guy at the FDA in charge of all of that. FDA Michael said to he'd fax the needed forms to the vet, and as soon as he got the forms back he'd send the letter. Now the vet just has to fill out the forms, and we just have to shimmy back up our little chain to get the stuff shipped.

It was quite an adventure getting all of this figured out...maybe I should be a detective.