Tuesday was a pretty average day. I did manage to put up 3 albums of pictures on Facebook. I’m going to put up the 4th today, I just didn’t last time because I didn’t feel like paying for that much internet.
Work Tuesday was very slow. Monday was super busy and all of the chairs were full, but Tues. was less than half full all day. Sometimes I like the slow days because they are kind of relaxing and I don’t feel like I’m ignoring half of the patients, but some slow days are just boring. It all depends on the crowd of kids that we get. Tuesday a lot of the kids were too sick to talk or were asleep, so by 12:30p, we left (we usually leave between 1:30 and 2p). Jesus, the doctor who works with PA with all of the various hospital/medical placements, was there Tuesday. His daughter gets treatment for a metabolic disorder and she has to get weekly chemotherapy. Marco, the director of PA here in GDL, showed up for a meeting with Jesus, so we got to see him for a bit as well. We were going to meet with him to discuss a new placement in public health that they offered to me, but he had an emergency of some type and had to leave. Jesus said they were going to make arrangements for us to go over to the new site in Zapopan and see if we were interested. I’m not sure if I’m going to want to switch though. When the AIDS program was cancelled and the chemotherapy center was offered, I said “yes” but I also said that if something in the public health area opened up, I’d be interested. Now that I’ve been at the chemotherapy center for 2 weeks, I am in love with the kids. Emily feels the same way as me. We’re both interested in seeing it, but we don’t know if we want to permanently change. We are going to see if we can do 2 days a week at the public health place and then do 3 days at the chemotherapy center. We’ll see!
After work we had a lazy afternoon and then met up with Heather, Jennifer, and Mel, Jennifer’s new roommate. Mel is a medical student in England and is here doing an intensive Spanish course. She wants to do world health eventually, so she wants to learn Spanish. Spanish is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world! We met them at a restaurant 2 blocks from our house and then went to this German café that is literally 300 feet from our house (convenient!). Heather left early because she was feeling really sick but the rest of us stayed for an hour. There was live jazz music and we met an American guy who is living in GDL with family for the summer. He gave us lots of places to check out and was really nice. I started getting a really bad headache, which I thought was from the smoke, so we called it a night and headed home.
Wednesday was a very interesting day. I woke up with a bit of the headache from the night before, but didn’t really think much of it. I got to work and after about an hour, I had a really upset stomach. Within an hour of the stomach issues, I got so cold that I was shivering all over and my fingers and lips were blue. The nurses tried to take me to the emergency room that was close by the chemotherapy center, but I told them I just wanted to go home. Emily stayed behind and continued working, but I went straight home. By the time I got there, I was really sick. Not only did I have a splitting headache and an upset stomach, but I had a really high fever and I was vomiting. It turns out Heather has the exact same thing as me. I spent the rest of Wednesday lying in bed or on the bathroom floor and I could not even keep down water I was so sick.
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