Week in review...

Sunday - After wrote Sunday afternoon, we went to the futbal game. It was pretty fun, but in a way frustrating because they faked injured so often, got carried off the field, and then ran right back on. I didn´t think that was part of the game... Oh well. Then we went home and relaxed the rest of the night.

Monday - Well, I got sick during the night. So, I spent most of the day in bed. No, I don´t know what I ate. One of the other volunteers got sick too. Anyway... Also on Monday we recieved "the container." The container is the size of a semi that was s shipped from Kansas by boat then truck a few months ago and got held up in customs until Monday. It´s nice to have all this new hospital equiptment... but it´s a lot to inventory, find a place for, and teach the doctors how to use. So...

Tuesday - I still wasn´t feeling wonderful, so they didn´t want me in the hospital around the patients. So, I got organizing tasks that didn´t require a lot of physical energy. I sorted hundreds of pairs of eyeglasses that were used, donated, and measured to see the prescription. They were all in a big box. So, I got to make someorder out of them. I also did some more work in the library with the new books that were donated. I did something else too... but now I can´t remember what...

Wednesday - I worked a 7am to 8pm shift in the ER and with the inpatients. Part of the day was interesting. Part was slow. Nothing to really write home about though.

Thursday - I went in at 8am and worked until 4pm or so in the hospital. Then we moved a big box of laproscopic surgical supplies into another place and I got to inventory it all. Then we watched The Intrepreter. My first movie since I got here. And I´m a movie person.

Friday - Went into the hospital at 8:30am and around 11am we took off with a girl about my age who had attempted suicide with rat posion. She wasn´t breathing, Before I had gotten to the ER, they had done CPR and got her heart going agian. But she wasn´t doing well. We also discovered that she was about 20 weeks pregnant by the looks of it. We don´t have an ER, so we loaded her in the back of a SUV type vehicle with me, 2 doctors, a nurse, and her husband and drove her, very quickly into Cochabamba. It took about 45 minutes. When we left her there she was stable, but still on a ventelator. So... pray for her, her husband, and the baby. Then, I went with Amy to some other missionaries house and figured out what a bunch of donated medicine was. Because on Monday and Tuesday we´re going a couple more hours out into the mountians to do a clinic for 2 days. Then we went out to dinner for Anticuchos. I´m not sure if I spelled that right, but it´s cow heart cooked on a bicycle spoke like schiscabab. Agian, I´m a horrid speller. Then we dropped off 2 volunteers at the airport and came back home.

Puppy update - they´re starting to walk. Not well, but they are. They look like drunk sailers. It´s super cute.