May 19, 2020

“I have asthma and an immune disorder, three broken ribs, and a small child with asthma, and I’m standing there for 11 hours a day, still taking the normal abuse from our patients, but also the new abuse from anxiety of those patients. My greatest fear is bringing this home to my family. 

People try to use us as an express lane because they ‘don’t want to wait in line’. We’ve split into teams to keep from containing the whole pharmacy if one of us gets it, so now to get my hours as a full time tech, I have to work the same schedule as my pharmacist. Most days are 11 hours (open to close). 

For me, I try to take it hour by hour since things keep changing, and controlling what I can, because trying to control what I can’t doesn’t help with the anxiety I already had before all of this, and doesn’t actually accomplish anything.”

-Nicole Bruce, CPhT

Giant Pottstown, PA

 

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