Just Plain Boring Stuff

If you haven’t heard yet, the famine in Somalia is a huge world crisis right now. The people of the internet saw this and decided to make a change, contacting an airline (Turkish Airlines) almost entirely through social media, for a plane that could be filled with food and sent to Somalia.

Turkish Airlines responded in a day. They have a plane. Now they need the food, and that’s where the internet comes in once again. They need 60 tons by March 27th. Their GoFundMe calls for a million dollars and is already halfway there from the time I’m posting this. Every dollar* counts. And every extra dollar goes to a second plane. (*not limited to just America or US currency)

DONATE HERE: WWW.GOFUNDME.COM/LOVEARMYFORSOMALIA

DONATE HERE: WWW.GOFUNDME.COM/LOVEARMYFORSOMALIA

When typing up the instructions, the pharmacist or technician was probably using shorthand in the computer, which automatically translates into text a patient can understand. The shorthand for this would have originally been ‘2 pfs po q4h prn hs’, where ‘prn’ stands for ‘as needed’. And there was a typo, so ‘prn’ became ‘pr’, which stands for ‘per rectum’ (aka rectally). I’ve done this myself on accident with ‘diabetes’ (DIAB) and ‘diarrhea’ (DIA), as well as prn and pr.