the humidifier runs quietly in the background. the smell of vicks vapo-rub permeates the room.
they are coming.
they come on silent wings, flying swiftly, taking aim at their target. and then they land.
unbeknowest to them, the target has taken precautions. the army lines up, ready for battle.
the two sides take a brief pause to size each other up.
and then the war begins.
the bacteriophages are far outnumbered, but they have a secret weapon.
fight! fight little azithromycin molecules! fight because the life of your host depends on it! this is your calling! this is what you were made for! do not fail me!
and so the battle rages on.
....to be continued.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Thursday, March 20, 2008
i'm going down swinging
well, it finally happened. those nasty little germs that have been flying past me left and right for the past 2 months finally hit their target.
i'm sick.
and it sucks. every year for the past 3 or 4 years, i've come home from a spring break vacation only to find myself staring an illness in the face. at least this is better than the year i had to get the lithotripsy to break up Giganto the Kidney Stone. still, having to work three 9-hour days in a row is sounding pretty nasty.
sigh. hopefully my little cough medicine knights will put up a good fight and slay the evil bacteria dragons asap.
i'm sick.
and it sucks. every year for the past 3 or 4 years, i've come home from a spring break vacation only to find myself staring an illness in the face. at least this is better than the year i had to get the lithotripsy to break up Giganto the Kidney Stone. still, having to work three 9-hour days in a row is sounding pretty nasty.
sigh. hopefully my little cough medicine knights will put up a good fight and slay the evil bacteria dragons asap.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
learn what your name means day
march 5th is also saint piran's day. if you're lame and don't know who saint piran IS (like myself), he is the patron saint of tin-miners, and also cornwall. so all you cornish tin-miners go ahead and take the day off. i wonder if there's a patron saint for irish/norwegian/english pharmacy technicians? hmmm...
yay for wikipedia! however often it may contain inaccurate facts, it is always there for me when i need to find obscure and random things.
there IS a patron saint for pharmacists. i give you SAINTS COSMAS AND DAMIAN! according to wikipedia, here's there sad story:
"During the persecution under Diocletian, Cosmas and Damian were arrested by order of the Prefect of Cilicia, one Lysias who is otherwise unknown, who ordered them under torture to recant. However, according to legend they stayed true to their faith, enduring a series of gruesome tortures that did not harm them, and finally suffered execution by beheading. Anthimus, Leontius and Euprepius, their younger brothers, who were inseparable from them throughout life, shared in their martyrdom.
Their most famous miraculous exploit was the grafting of a leg from a recently deceased Ethiopian to replace a patient's ulcered leg, and was the subject of many paintings and illuminations."
you know, all in all, it's not much different from the daily lives of many pharmacists. "under torture to recant" can be compared to "being yelled at for charging a different copay than last month when really it's the same." the gruesome, but harmless, tortures, sounds very much like staying on hold for a half an hour with an insurance company so some newbie insurance agent can figure out what an ID number is. beheading? oh, there are definitely days when i'm afraid some of those middle-aged women will cut my head off if they don't get there hormone replacement therapy ASAP.
so here's to you cosmas and damian. little known and probably underappreciated in the saint world, but you paved the way for suffering pharmacy staff!
yay for wikipedia! however often it may contain inaccurate facts, it is always there for me when i need to find obscure and random things.
there IS a patron saint for pharmacists. i give you SAINTS COSMAS AND DAMIAN! according to wikipedia, here's there sad story:
"During the persecution under Diocletian, Cosmas and Damian were arrested by order of the Prefect of Cilicia, one Lysias who is otherwise unknown, who ordered them under torture to recant. However, according to legend they stayed true to their faith, enduring a series of gruesome tortures that did not harm them, and finally suffered execution by beheading. Anthimus, Leontius and Euprepius, their younger brothers, who were inseparable from them throughout life, shared in their martyrdom.
Their most famous miraculous exploit was the grafting of a leg from a recently deceased Ethiopian to replace a patient's ulcered leg, and was the subject of many paintings and illuminations."
you know, all in all, it's not much different from the daily lives of many pharmacists. "under torture to recant" can be compared to "being yelled at for charging a different copay than last month when really it's the same." the gruesome, but harmless, tortures, sounds very much like staying on hold for a half an hour with an insurance company so some newbie insurance agent can figure out what an ID number is. beheading? oh, there are definitely days when i'm afraid some of those middle-aged women will cut my head off if they don't get there hormone replacement therapy ASAP.
so here's to you cosmas and damian. little known and probably underappreciated in the saint world, but you paved the way for suffering pharmacy staff!
Saturday, February 2, 2008
a couple of records
1. i am currently running on 25 minutes of sleep, which i'm not sure was even really sleep, more like a brief coma. i have been going strong since yesterday morning. no drugs were used in the accomplishing of this event. well, except for some hot chocolate.
2. i read eclipse in less than 8 hours. partly the reason i've had no sleep and am currently walking around in a haze. the other reason being blasted interviews for the prospective student leaders for next year. although i do have to say that it's much easier to be the interviewer than the interviewee.
3. i don't think i've eaten anything other than chocolate today.
2. i read eclipse in less than 8 hours. partly the reason i've had no sleep and am currently walking around in a haze. the other reason being blasted interviews for the prospective student leaders for next year. although i do have to say that it's much easier to be the interviewer than the interviewee.
3. i don't think i've eaten anything other than chocolate today.
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
why i love the big bang theory (the tv show)
weather: 25° F
reading: some lame p chem textbook
reason #1: the following quote
penny: whoa, a girl scientist
leslie: yep. come for the boobs, stay for the brains.
i'm voting this become the official ACCESS motto. i can just see it now.
reading: some lame p chem textbook
reason #1: the following quote
penny: whoa, a girl scientist
leslie: yep. come for the boobs, stay for the brains.
i'm voting this become the official ACCESS motto. i can just see it now.
ACCESS
Women in Science and Math
"Come for the boobs, stay for the brains"
oh yeah. that would totally rock.
Friday, January 4, 2008
i take it back
weather: 22° F
reading: the count of monte cristo
i take back everything i said about last saturday. i was an ungrateful little brat.
monday there was one pharmacist, an intern, and a tech on staff. they did over 200 prescriptions in 4 hours. that's how many we usually do on a normal day with an extra tech and a clerk.
i am so sorry.
reading: the count of monte cristo
i take back everything i said about last saturday. i was an ungrateful little brat.
monday there was one pharmacist, an intern, and a tech on staff. they did over 200 prescriptions in 4 hours. that's how many we usually do on a normal day with an extra tech and a clerk.
i am so sorry.
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