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Date: 27 April 2005 04:34:18
I have discovered that working in an after hours pharmacy on a public holiday is a sign that your day will be full of nutters. On Monday I had visits from:
1. Swimming woman. She had just been swimming and had sore eyes. They'd never been this sore before. Why were they sore today? It couldn't be that the pool had just been chlorinated because she'd called around all the pools in the area to find out what time they put their chlorine in and this one did it early in the morning and she went in the evening. Her eyes were gritty. Was that a sign of irritation? (um.. yes) Her son didn't have sore eyes. But he was wearing goggles. Often she wears goggles but today she didn't. But she has forgotten goggles before and her eyes were a bit red but nothing like this. The right one is more gritty than the left one. What could have caused this? What should she do? Yay recommends an eye wash. "Oh but I don't want to buy anything. I just wanted to know what could have caused it". Gah probably from your kid peeing in the water or something. Now I have to go and deal with the 15 people who have piled up waiting for prescriptions while you were wasting my time.
2. Parasite man. Hello, my lady friend has these all around her groin *Hands yay a business card*. Yay looks at the card for clues - it has a phone number on it... surely phone numbers around the groin are no reason for a trip to the pharmacist. It also has two bits of tape on it. Well tape around the groin would be a bit uncomfortable but it can be removed fairly painlessly with a bit of tea tree oil. Yay looks closer again. There are two body lice underneath the tape. Ohhhhhhhhhhh. Right. Well I assume they're body lice. I've never been afflicted with such things and hence could only assume. Surely it would have sufficed to say "my lady friend (partner? wife? woman?) has been infested with little insects. What can you sell me to kill them?". I do not need evidence!!!
3. The mysterious rash brigade.
"I have a rash on my arm/leg/finger. what can you give me for it?"
"do you know what caused it? does it hurt? does it itch? it is raised?"
"no, no, no, no"
"can I see it?
"well it's a bit hard to see but if I put my arm on an angle like this.... and you look at it from the side... see that?"
"is it bothering you at all?"
"no"
"how long has it been there?"
"oh about 10 minutes"
"and what precisely would you like me to do about it?
"I just thought I should check you know... if it was anything..."
4. Eye lady. Similar to rash person but with a bit of redness in one eye. Likely caused by rubbing eye.
5. If it's on the lip it must be a cold sore. I'd like something for a cold sore. It's here. I'm using this cream for a skin cancer just next to where the cold sore is. Do you think that could have something to do with it? Another cold sore is coming out on the other lip where this one touches. I've never had cold sores before. Can I have some Zovirax? Yay explains that Zovirax is an antiviral treatment. It is unlikely to help a skin lesion that is caused by a treatment for skin cancers. Unfortunately that is a side effect and there is not a lot you can do about it apart from stopping the treatment prematurely. Oh but I've already stopped using the cream! A few days ago! What else can I do??? Um... not much really. You could try something for the pain. But what about the infection? There is no infection!
And they just kept coming!