Crapola Day

Yesterday was Crapola day. Firstly, after 11hours of 'sleep' (I am beginning to redefine the meaning of sleep-already!) I woke up feeling like garbage. Exhausted from my 'sleep', I had to cook lunch and then go to work after. Ughh...every step was a huge effort and as soon as I reached the workplace I was ready to go home!!

Luckily for me, it was a very serene day.
We had nothing to do all day and I could only sit on the ladder and phsyche myself into not falling asleep. Everything anyone told me flew past my head faster than a crow zooms past your car!

All I could 'see' were the patients coming in with children and requesting for baby stuff. Every visit was freakish. One child started screaming and crying her head off when told not to disturb the kiddy display in the shop, while her mother bought some medication for her. And what did the mother do? She managed to keep a straight and pleasant face as she was still talking to me, calmly and gently said she was very irritated as her daughter had been like that since last night. She picked up the screaming child, said 'aww it's ok, mummy knows you're tired..let's go home and you'll feel better..' What! Am I supposed to do THAT! My natural response would be 'quick! run away! ' I suppose....I need more training. And observing....

One mother came in with 3boys. As soon as she was done asking her questions, she went 'ok quick! Time to GO!' The 3 boys arose like tin soldiers, straightened their backs, and walked out the door behind their mother with the same distance between each child and right foot first, left foot second,...their little march caused a big stir in the pharmacy as one student laughed till she cried.

I ended up treating all 3 students with McChips and McNuggets much to their delight...It's so nice having students like that! We have laughing fits and good time figuring out what things like this mean:

"Where a medical practitioner has written, issued or authorised a prescription or document prescribing the use, sale or supply of a poison included in Schedule 8, for the treatment of a person other than a drug addict, or supplied a poison included in Schedule 8 for the treatment of a person, other than a drug addict, for a period of 60 days, or for periods that in the aggregate over the preceding 12 months exceed 60 days, or for a course of treatment exceeding 60 days, the medical practitioner shall not thereafter write, issue or authorise a prescription or document prescribing the use, sale or supply of a poison included in Schedule 8 in relation to that person or supply a poison included in Schedule 8 in relation to that person unless ..."

Yeah...they force poor pharmacy students to interpret the law, which is not even written in english.

Here's to another day of not wanting to eat anything, not able to do anything, and absent-minded pea-brainness...