An Iowa family is furious. Their daughter is battling cancer. She is on a very strict drug maintenance program.

When they went to pick up her chemotherapy drugs, they ran into one hurdle after another.

“She asked me if she was going to die. That was the hardest,” said Makayla Umphreys, Gracie’s mom.

Makayla recalls day one-when she learned her 15-year-old daughter, Gracie, had Leukemia.

Doctors put Gracie on a nine cycle treatment plan that would stretch over several months.

She takes a combination of drugs on an intricate schedule.

“She has three chemotherapy drugs that she takes at various times throughout the cycle, and one cycle is 85 days,” said Makayla.

It was during cycle five-the Umphreys say-that their pharmacy they have used for years, CVS, dropped the ball.

It was on Gracie’s prescription for ATRA, or Tretinol. It’s the *main* drug in Gracie’s fight against Leukemia.

“I get a phone call from a pharmacist at CVS asking if I knew the prescription was going to be moved to their Specialty Pharmacy…no I didn’t of course. I didn’t even know they had such a thing I’d never even heard of it before,” said Makayla.

Makayla says a few days later, she got a call from that Specialty Pharmacy. In some sense it felt like the whole cancer fight was starting all over.

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