If your friend is going away for a week and is very apprehensive about it, you can set up a power-pill box for her. Label the powers for each pill on the back of the box. Your pal can take one every morning she's away, and at night she can count the pills that remain to calculate the number of days left before she gets to come back home. Jordan Almonds work well; so do Peanut m&m's. It's part abacus, part medicine.
bye, Anne!
