ABSTRACT:
Welcome to the start of the adventure. Welcome to my dose of pharmacy illustrated. Welcome to pharmacy meets panic meets pencil.

I’m The Pharmartist: someone who's spent over a decade working in pharmacy, and spent most of my spare time since school drawing.
Now I've decided (foolishly, or maybe geniously) to go all in on one of those loves and become a pharmacist!

DISCUSSION AND RESULTS:
This space is to share my art, inspired by the world of pharmacy and beyond, and to diarise my journey studing for my MPharm degree.
I've always been a drawer (by 'drawer' I mean the sketchy kind and not the store your socks in kind; and by 'sketchy' I mean the pen and paper kind, not the questionable kind) and it's started to find purpose in helping me learn the world of pharmacy. 
Through mnemonics, rhymes or simply drawing weird stuff, some of the information has stuck, and it's been so much better than writing notes over and over and over and over and over.

Am I excited for uni?

YES. No. Yes. I'm scared as hell.

I’ll be starting the MPharm as a mature student. And it's a 5 year course. 
How significant this is, was never more obvious than the taster days at the universities.
"How old are you?"
It was like a comedy. Everyone around me, foetuses! Young stem cells, high on the latest A-level science knowledge, walking around like mini-Einsteins and answering questions at lightning speed.
This made me worried about how easily I will transition back into a learning environment, and made me a little jealous.
To catch up, I've been brushing up on GCSE and A-level science. Despite my wealth of clinical experience though, these kids have a serious scientific edge. 

Is it too late?

NEVER! 
At the end of one of those taster days we sat down in threes and did PEF readings together.
A PEF is a Peak Expiratory Flow measurement of the lungs. You blow into a small tube with a dial - like the high-striker hammer game at a carnival. The harder you are able to blow, the higher your reading. Based on a range of these readings we can assess how good your lungs are and support a diagnosis - or spot a flare up of - asthma and COPD.
It was after explaining that to two new phoetal friends on the day that I remembered pharmacy is so flipping cool.
This is the right choice.

LOGICAL CONCLUSIONS:
So this blog will be equal parts illustration and serious pharmacy knowhow.
BUT DISCLAIMER: everything that is shared here is for educational and creative purposes only. There's never been a good substitute for your local pharmacist or GP if you have a medical concern!

I can guarantee however that there will be a lot of cool sketches, terrible writing and nerding out over the small ins and outs of pharmacy!
If you find something here that helps you study, catches your eye, or makes you consider going into pharmacy — I'll be chuffffffed.

Thank you for joining the adventure!