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Farewell Dinner, Farewell Tacloban...
... and rode away from Bliss in tears.
It wasn't all sad. When we got to the airport I walked around the side of the jeepney waiting for the others to unload. Out of no where this little head pops out of the front set of the jeepney and says "Ate Heather, Weather!" Meco had gotten in the jeepney with out any of us knowing and road all the way to the airport. It was so random and I couldn't help but laugh. It was a happy surprise and a great last memory of Tacloban, Philippines.
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Final Week at the Clinic :(
... the grandma to go get the mother in the ambulance to bring her in. We took the baby girl in the back to clean her up and we realized that the placenta was also wrapped in the burlap sack. The placenta was not complete so the midwife had to go back in the mother to get the rest out when she arrived in the clinic. When we were holding the baby we instantly fell in love with her and after hearing the background story of the family wanted to bring ...
Sanitation?
... because I'm pretty sure Allison and I have had some bad luck with transportation. A jeepney will pick us up right away, but then we will be waiting in the terminal for an hour plus for it to completely fill up with people! That is something that I have gotten used to, patience, or should I say Philippine time. You kinda just have to go with the flow. I thought I was naturally very relaxed and low ...
Work and the Santo Nino Shrine
... to leave the Philippines, the government would most likely deny their visas due to their occupation. Health professionals are required to serve in the Philippines for twice as many years as they were in school and even after that, they make it nearly impossible to leave. The brain drain hit the country hard when all of their doctors and nurses started to leave to make a better living somewhere else so the government responded with the near impossibility ...
Surgerical wounds and lost shoes
The clinic was pretty slow on Tuesday. We did a few patient intakes and got to talk with the nurses for awhile. The highlight of the day was cleaning a foot wound. The girl had recently had surgery for a foot cyst. The nurse let me clean the incision and help her bandage it up. Anytime I get to clean a wound makes me happy!
Tuesday night we went out and did a little karaoke at a place called Bugs. And by bugs they mean bugs bunny. He was all over ...
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