Simply Dreams

Dear Diary,

Had this very strange feeling today… a lady came and asked for Retacnyl cream. Then it occurred to me that I had a dream last night regarding this cream!!! In that dream, I actually told that the customer that I did not have that cream and when she left… I realised I had 8 tubes of Retacnyl cream on the shelf! Guess what… they were expiring soon! Geezzz…. Okay, that was what I saw in my dream. So when the customer asked me today… I vacillated for a moment and even stole a peep at my shelves to verify that I did not actually keep that cream. I did not keep it. However, that similarity in scenarios between the dream and the real life that happened just the next day is almost scary. It is even scarier that I don’t actually know that Retacnyl product because I never really saw it before. I checked the contents of that preparation through the drug references and realised… thankfully that what I saw in the dream was wrong. The drug is tretinoin cream for acne. In the dream, I saw benzoyl peroxide and tretinoin… Still it is very close. Hmmm… So weird!

The “weirdness” perpetuated through the day with yet another strange incident. A lady kept talking about AQUEA cream and how she developed allergic rash from using it… okay… then stop using it. She went on and on… I had to excuse myself to dispense Rozex for a Caucasian lady with rosacea. Then she continued her repetitive story…. I gave an excuse and took a bag of rubbish out of the pharmacy to discard. She started talking to my own student and the other student attached temporary to my pharmacy. When I returned, they told me that lady said that I am a charming (yay! Haha...) doctor (when my students and I had repeatedly told her that I am a pharmacist, tsk tsk) and asked if the students are interested in me… errr…. What sort of a weird question… She took my name card.

My students told me to set up a fan club… okay…. Then this lady returned again and asked for my students’ names. That was the last straw. I conjured up two names “Carol” and “Diana” for my two students, and got her off. Those students were laughing at me for the remaining of the day… Oh well… One of them even had the audacity to ask if she could spend some time reading the book “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” in my pharmacy! I allowed her to read for ½ hour since she was so brave, haha…

In a week’s time, my role as preceptor will cease. I sure hope I can find something to keep me challenged. Suddenly, I just have that thought of doing some further studies. Why am I never satisfied?

Like what my student always teases me, “Yes, you have ONLY a simple dream. Just marry a good nice Christian wife, have three good nice children who get into the Raffles schools, own a residence near the Botanical Gardens and drive a Mercedes Benz B-Class.” Alright… she’s spot-on. My dream is not that simple at all, haha…

God Bless,

Andrew