I was asked to make a speech by someone from the tourism department regarding their International Dance Festival. The background is a rock carving from 400AD. Random weird stuff like this speech has happened frequently. I made a joke that they must have had good forsight in carving the wall just for this dance festival. Nobody laughed, there is quite a language barrier.
The bane of my existence here, the malaria harboring mosquito on a flower during MY lunch.
Baby Biswas, an 11yo F with cerebral palsy, I gave her my livestrong bracelet (see left arm). If I go into pediatric PM&R it is because of patients like her.
Well, the time has come for me to pack my things (which required the purchase of an additional suitcase). I still have plenty to blog about so I plan to continue relaying my past experiences as they come to me. I have loved my time here. Not in a vacation way, but in a "broadening my horizons" way I suppose. I have seen things here I never saw in three and half years of education in San Antonio. I have seen Wilson's disease twice, tuberculosis meningitis, leprosy, and many other things very rare back home - things I only thought I could see in a textbook. The environment seems to have brought out the better student in me. Feeling free from pending evaluations and studying for a test, I asked questions like there was no tomorrow and found many people willing to teach me and sacrifice their own time. I feel guilty in that I have not added much of anything to this place, really just taken up time from schedules and a chair in the patient examining room. Perhaps that will lead me back here one day to repay this beloved debt to CMC. The doctors aren't paid much more than the nurses, and housing options are scant at best and this makes for quite a genuine and humble experience that I am proud to have participated in.
That said, I do miss home quite a bit and will be happy to see my sleepnumber bed again. David has let Boston back on the bed, we were trying to train him to sleep in his pod during the night, but I suppose we will cave in. I hope the Spurs are doing okay and I hope my family has recovered from the Cowboys loss. We will be on our way to Chennai tomorrow, then a few nights in Dubai and back home by Tuesday afternoon. I plan to post on my rehabilitation experience and final thoughts sometime this weekend.
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Hey girl!! Miss you from our "fun" days back in the SICU. Sounds like you had a great time. I leave the day after you get back and would love to ask you some things. If you are up to calling me sometime like Wednesday that would be great. My number is 214-680-9191. Have a safe trip home. Erica :)
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