Hola amigos, Will be heading back to work tomorrow; for this portion I will be working with the local epidemiology surveillence/ public health analysis body. I will be basically studying what they do, how they are organized, and how they collect data. Hopefully I will be able to contribute to their work as well- I [...]
Archive for August, 2010
28 Aug
Video clip time!
Hey everyone! I thought I would put up some links to a couple of videos that haven’t yet made the blog and a couple of random photos. Here’s the link to another video of the Griteria Chiquita for those of you who didn’t believe my description of fireworks being shot into the crowd- that is [...]
24 Aug
Vacation!
August 24, 2010 11pm Greetings from the beach town of San Juan del Sur! I have had the good fortune over the last two weeks to enjoy some well-deserved vacation! Nicaragua is a great place to travel- a lot of beautiful wonders of nature to enjoy, as well as the warm and welcoming people I [...]
17 Aug
Climbing volcanoes and dodging fireworks
Hey there! Last weekend was a blast in Leon! On Saturday, August 14, I climbed my second volcano! Momotombo is one of the more difficult local volcanoes to climb, standing at over 4250 ft above sea level. Sure was harder than Cerro Negro! The volcano is important in Leon history because its eruption in 1610 [...]
13 Aug
Paint, boogers, and onions
Hola de nuevo! This has been another super busy week! This time in the “sala respiratoria”- the respiratory ward, which consists of two rooms, one with 14 kids and one with 9 kids, mostly with pneumonia, asthma, and bronchiolitis. Because of the number of kids admitted with these diagnoses, usually both rooms are completely full [...]
8 Aug
Mystery Bucket
Mystery solved. So this story goes back to my first few days in El Sauce. It always seemed to be a mystery, completely unpredictable when one could turn on the faucet and expect, say, water, versus a few gurgling sounds and a burst of air. This, I thought, must be the rural life, so okay, [...]
7 Aug
First night on call
Hey folks- Another busy, busy week. I got to have the experience of taking a night of call with the rest of the resident team on Tuesday. And I thought call was tiring in my first language! I was definitely completely exhausted on Wednesday (call is 7am Tues until 3pm Wed); I even slept through [...]
1 Aug
Recovering
Buenas tardes! Sorry it’s been a while since my last post- I got sick! Not really bad sick, just like a fever/cold/laryngitis/lay in bed a couple days type of thing. So I missed Friday at the hospital. Going back tomorrow. This weekend has been a bit of a bust- just laying around in my room [...]
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