UPDATE: The soy ice cream was AMAZING and I am really glad the place is only open thursday-sunday or else I would eat it everyday!!
Monday morning I got up early and had breakfast which was amazing as usual and then walked to the proworld office; I met my project coordinator, Ronnie, who took me to the clinic and showed me how to get there from my house and all of that fun stuff. It is quite far from town but it is a doable walk. When I got the clinic I met all of the staff : the nurse, the office staff, pharmacy tech, lab tech and the doctor. They are all very nice and helpful. Within the first 10 mins of being there I got to run an EKG on a patient which was pretty cool; they are very easy to use. After that the clinic got swamped; it was a very busy day which they are not used to.
I shadowed the nurse a little bit, then sat in the lab for 30-40 mins to check that out too. I learned quite a bit about lab work that we seem to use frequently. After the lab I sat in with the doctor for most visits and helped call patients back and run errands for the doc. It was a little challenging because most of the patients spoke spanish so I was quite clueless as to what the heck the patient and doctor were discussing. But, on the other hand it was also very interesting to try to figure out what their complaint was by body language and a word here and there that sounded like an english word. Most of the time I was pretty close ( the nurse let me look at the charts later in the day to see what the complaint and diagnosis was). During the down time I talked to the doctor quite a bit. He is originally from Honduras but has traveled pretty much everywhere in the world. He is very knowledgeable and easy to talk to. We talked a ton about medicine and also just about life. I really like working with him.
We saw everything from a pregnancy check up, depression, nerve damage from a stabbing, UTIs and other minor things. All in all it was a good day.
Monday night we went for a tour of san ignacio with proworld staff, so that was nice. After that I came home to a nice bottle of wine that Adma and Marlin were drinking. I showered and then enjoyed some wine with them while chatting. I love getting to know them. They are such a happy family that really enjoy the little things in life! After that a taxi picked me up to take me downtown where all the other volunteers were; I met the rest of the group from June, so all together there are about 12 of us. We went to a couple bars to celebrate 4th of july. We had a great time, the group gets a long really well!!
P.S. my host mom hugged me in honor of 4th of July hahaha it was cute!
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