We rolled into the church this morning to sort 2 big bags of prescription drugs that had been donated. I at least figured that it couldn't be that hard to decipher the different medicines, put them into piles, and call it a day. Boy was I wrong.
Only a handful of medicines were packaged together; the rest were loose in what turned into a bottomless garbage bag. Things went downhill from there. Most of the medicines were for Central America and weren't anything we recognized. We set up three tables and started to figure out the differences between antibacterial and anti-inflammatory medicines and the like.
The best part was that all of the medicines clearly say, in English, what compound is the active ingredient in the drug. When I say we recognized 5% of the English words used on those medicines, I'm not exaggerating. We had to pull out my computer and type all these different "xaxozolantines" and "citiflavins" and whatnot into wikipedia to figure out what types of medicine we had.
We have a bunch more to do tomorrow, but it's supposed to rain till Monday so we won't be missing anything. We wanted to go snorkeling in the Caribbean this weekend, but it's raining there too . . . readers interested in preserving our sanity should reply with movie recommendations!
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