So, as I have mentioned before, I work in a retail pharmacy. We're a relatively slow store, but we are one of the very few stores that offer compounded medications. For instance, we can make Phenergan Gel that you can rub on your wrists. If you're projectile vomiting, it's somewhat difficult to keep a pill down, and most people tend to shy away from inserting any objects in their butt. It's just unpleasant...er...I mean...um......I've heard from...um...other people....that it's...um...............YES I'M AWESOME!
Ahem.
Anyway, one of the things we make is Boric Acid vaginal suppositories. We were running low, so I decided to make a batch while we were slow. It's pretty easy, just time consuming. You have to measure out a couple ingredients, melt one down, and mix the others into it, then pour the entire concoction into some molds. Simple stuff. Unless you get attacked by the Silica Gel.
Silica Gel is an interesting monster. It's a nearly weightless solid (not a gel, interestingly enough) that acts like a powder (read: floats in the air) until it gets wet. Once it comes into contact with any type of moisture, however, it sucks it up and expands. Somehow the container got slightly pressurized. Maybe because someone left it under the heating vent. Just a thought.
However it happened, I unscrewed the lid and it puffed up into my face. Fortunately I was breathing out, because if I had inhaled a bunch of it I could have become the first person in the history of history to dry drown. There are several other nasty side effects to inhaling this crap that I would like to avoid. While managing to drown in the middle of a pharmacy would make an interesting obituary, I'd prefer to remain boring yet alive than spectacularly dead.
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