Parents say pharmacy mix-up could have seriously harmed child

by RAD BERKY / NewsChannel 36 Staff

WCNC.com

Posted on May 2, 2012 at 1:13 AM

Updated today at 9:00 AM

GASTONIA, N.C. -- A Gastonia family told NewsChannel 36 that a local pharmacy mixed up a prescription for their son, and the results could have been potentially deadly.

The Rite Aid store on West Franklin Boulevard had been the pharmacy of choice for the Leigh family--until last Friday.

"I was really mad. I had set myself up for jail time, to be honest with you, because I was really that mad," said Kelly Leigh Tuesday afternoon.

Leigh said she was afraid for what might have happened to her son, Logan.

Logan is a month shy of seven and suffers from a rare form of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. He takes shots of a drug called Embrel to help control it.

But instead of a box of pre-dosed shots, when Leigh went into the Rite Aid last Friday, she said she was handed a box containing what appeared to be flex pens or eppy pens.

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Parents say pharmacy mix-up could have seriously harmed child