Why do I get the feeling I should be running a pharmacy?

Despite the cold boston air telling me that winter will never end,  I can feel that spring is coming; I can feel it in my itching burning eyes!  I opened my filing cabinet this morning to get in search of relief and realized that I had a lot of drugs to chose from.

I found:

  • Alaway Eye Drops (for allergies)
  • Generic Claritin
  • Generic Zyertec
  • Some Nasal Spray (also for allergies)
  • Diphenhydramin (Benadryl for the uninitiated)
  • Ibuprophen
  • Generic sudafed
  • Some packet of small red pills, that I’ve used only once (I suspect they are sudafed)
  • Maxalt (Migrane medication that always seems to expire about 6 months before my next migrane)
  • An unopened bottle of Ibuprophen
  • Staples (Not sure why I have these. I would highly recommend you not eat staples, just saying)

medication maxalt Advilandstaples

Seriously I’ve got my own little pharmacy going on, well except for the staples.  What I find even crazier is I actually understand how most of these drugs work. With a little bit of review I could diagram out on a molecular and cellular level why this drugs produce their prescribed effect. Seriously I should have been a pharmacist, or an office supply provider.

2 Comments

  1. Yes, but can you diagram how a staple works? I worked at Staples—the office supply superstore—to fund my undergraduate education. The intellectual demands of office supplies are so rigorous, I had to get out in the end.

  2. Mark

     /  March 29, 2009

    Stuart, I would buy your drugs. But I’m not really in the market for staples right now. So sorry on that end.

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