Junio y dos

Was a learning experience today, I was triaging at the clinic and learned that triaging here just means doing vitals and writing down a complaint in one word - ie: headache. I tried to get a little bit of history and paula one of the Honduran nurses says - "NO you no dr, what do you know - they know, we don't - just one word". I had a guy with chest pain, pulse of 144, blood sugar of 433 (really high seeing as normal is around 85) and a bp of 212/125. So I was trying to get a history and was going to put him in the front of the line and do an ECG and the other nurse says "no, first come first serve" yikes!! There are quite a few volunteers right now so there was like 4 people trying to vitals and get a chief complaint and I could not take it any longer so I went to help in the pharmacy. We Also had a lady today who has had a broken hip for 3 months and all we can do for her is give her good pain killers - she can not walk really at all anymore - so sad.

Today was day two of our scuba lessons which was our first full dive to 30 feet at a place called "overheat reef" it started off a little sketchy but after a little panic attack on my part, a little vomit on Dans part, and a few minor jelly fish stings all around we came away fairly unscathed! we managed to spy a green moray eel, green turtle, lion fish, and a barracuda among other great things.
We are pretty tired and are off to bed!

We are off to utilla tomorrow after clinic for the weekend - one of the Bay Islands apparently amazing snorkeling and a good time. We catch a catamaran in West end! Here's hoping the waters are calm and make it there with as little nausea as possible!!!! Probably no blog until Sunday night!

Andrea

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Supper at West End - mmmmm chicken, beans and rice and fish tacos!


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