Thursday, July 12:
Hospice and home visits. At hospice, Manuel told me I could "massage his pants" instead of his hands. He is a dirty, old man. At a home visit, Hope and I were given coco morado...quite an awkward situation to try and eat it while everyone in the family watches you. The staff threw us a party for dinner!
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| Coco Morado grossness...A good experience though! |
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| The party hosted by the awesome staff here at the parish. |
Friday, July 13:
Emergency room in the morning. Afternoon off to work on papers.
Saturday, July 14:
We went to a weird, massage/positive energy therapy center where we received
massages. I was given an electric massage, but some of the gals had a much
different experience that involved walking on them and jumping on the table.A group from Oklahoma/Texas/Cali showed up. Some of them are part of a medical mission that will be performing hernia surgeries all week. I'm excited to see BLOOD & GUTS!
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| As you can tell, the massage place was very exciting. |
Sunday, July 15: Sunday,
not-so-funday. We worked on our aggregate papers and projects. My group
of 5 is doing our project on the pro-life clinic located here at the parish...25 page papers kind of suck.
Monday, July 16:
Hospice in a.m., ER afternoon. We went to another village fiesta in the evening.
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| I finally got some members of the Peruvian Army to take a picture with me. |
Tuesday, July 17:
I spent the day with the medical mission watching hernia surgeries. They set up
in the clinic here at the parish which has a very nice OR. We got to follow our
patients from pre-op, through surgery, post-op and discharge. This made for an
interesting and long day. Tonight we presented our aggregate research findings via powerpoint to our instructor and one of the parish nurses, Veronica. It feels goo to be done with that madness.
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| Manuel and his post-op team: pre-PA student, nursing student, soon to be med student |
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| We're sexy & we know it. |
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| Yay, blood and guts! |
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| This surgeon was super awesome, or as Nathan would say, "hecka chill." |
