The weekend is here!!!!! Today we hopped in a boat and headed to Tortuga. We went to a different part of Tortuga this time. Tortuga is so lush compared to PDP. There is so much green. It is also way quieter and everyone seems to be more calm. It is also wayyyy cooler. This was the first time I was actually cold in Haiti! We stayed in this cute bread and breakfast that had a great view of the island and the water. We ate chatted and relaxed all day Saturday . We also took a short walk around the village we were staying in. I was told that Tortuga had more poverty than PDP. I would never know that just looking at the homes. They are generally larger and better constructed than those I see here by the clinic. The people and kids also look healthier. One thing that I found interesting is how much solar power was used on the island. There was even a little solar panel farm at the top of the island. Great source of basic electricity! Sunday we headed back down the mountain , took a boat...
First day with the new crew! Seemed To go very well. The morning was nuts for me. I think I only saw 1 or2 people assigned to me. There were a TON of wounds I had to check out on other people's patients . The wounds were all over as well. A few fingers, a fees rashes, a few legs. I saw my first venous wound here in Haiti. All exciting things. We have two younger people on our trip who plan on attending PT school, one of them LOVEs wounds almost as much as I do! She helps me out a ton and makes seeing a few patients at once possible. Although most of the say was great I have one wound that is baffling me. No matter what I do it keeps getting worse. It is driving me nuts! I reached out to some of he MDs back home, so hopefully that will help. In the meantime I am googling all kinds of things so figure out what to do. After work we all hung out in the clinic and geeked out over PT related things. It was rainy so we did. It get to go on our normal walk. I practiced my manipulati...
Teaching day!!!!! I got to go into town and teach a group of 1st and 2nd year nursing students about wounds. It was a very interesting experience. The school was two rooms with no electricity. The kids did their labs outside. The desks were like the school desks we sat in a kids back in elementary school. I was having flashbacks to the stories my dad told me as a kid about his school days. The kids were engaged in the lecture and asked great questions. It was fun watching them during the lab part. I was teaching them how to debride and dress a wound. As I was talking to the kids I found one of them Jd recently burned his leg on a motorcycle and had crushed up amoxicillin and put it in his burn. Needless to say , I told him to come back to the clinic with me so I could clean the wound and dress it . After teaching I cam back to the clinic and treated wounds for the rest of the day with one or two ortho patients thrown in there. I did get to needle a patient independently which was fun. ...
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