Two days an counting until we leave for Ecuador for an orthopedic medical mission...Medical bags packed...check, personal bag organized but not in carry on yet...check, plane ticket...check, passport ....check, cash...check, protein bars...check, stethoscope...check. I will head to PDX airport at o-dark hundred 03:45 Saturday ..and the adventure begins
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Eyelashes, banans& roses...what was lost is found
Well I spent 20 min typing a blog post last evening and some how deleted it when I was trying to edit it. So here goes again
Typical flow of our days
06 out of bed( to lobby for WiFi
07 breakfast
07:30 on the bus( with armed guards with big guns, we don't go any where with out them)
8:00 round on patients...after we run up 5 flts of stairs
8:30 first surgeries start
5:30 last patient out of surgery( that is the goal)
6:00 round on patients ....run nip 5 flts of stairs...
6:30 finish triage if there are new patients waiting
7:30 back to bus....
8:00 dinner
Start over
Some observations...
Ecuadorean babies have the longest eyelashes in the world!
Machala is the banana capital of the world...who knew.
Most roses we get from florist in USA come from Ecuador.
It is about 88 and 100 humidity....in malaria heaven...first bite yesterday..yeah for Larium
GOOD NEWS!!!!! Got my luggage yesterday..so like wearing my own clothes especially ----- oh never mind TMI
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