Clinic Day 1 around Dalat
Trip Start
Jun 14, 2008
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8
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Trip End
Jul 02, 2008
Dalat,
Vietnam
Thursday, June 26, 2008
We chatted it up about the city and what not. His name is Wan and he is finishing up school for tourism. He wants to move to Ho Chi Mihn City and be a tour guide. Up in Dalat, there is a lot more diversity in the crops grown, not just rice. So he was explaining to me what crops were being grown in the fields. Apparently in the past 5 - 10 years Coffee has exploded around here and made some people very rich.
We arrived at the hospital around 8 30 and set up to start seeing patients at 8 45. There was another large crowd outside of the hospital when we arrived. Apparently chiropractic is a big deal around here and they go nuts for it. I ended up seeing 49 people yesterday. It was crazy. I had two previous stroke patients. The first one, i didn't really know what to do and kind of freaked out but got what i could done. But then after that one, i was a lot more calm and collected. I actually manually adjusted the 2nd one. He didn't jump up off the table and walk out of the place with no problems, but the adjustement seemed to have helped him out some what. I also saw 2 or 3 children, one infant that was less than 1 year old. That was pretty neat. The last little girl i adjusted was about 4, she was so cute. Big brown eyes and she wouldn't change expressions even when i tried smiling at her. She had headaches and some leg pain. So i adjusted her cervicals and then her lumbars(side posture style). The girls on the next bench tried to take a picture of me doing the side posture, but i didn't realize that they were trying to take the pic, so i was too quick.
After we got back, i had a MASS of paperwork to get done so i started on that. At 7 we went out to get something to eat and walk around Dalat. Very beautiful city. It's about like the northwest. Cool and not humid. We ended up eating at a Pizza place just across the street from our hotel and had a few beers. Everything is extremely cheap here away from the tourist area. Beers for at the most $1. Crazy. Anywho, after we got back, we were beat and decided to finish up some paperwork and head to bed.
That's about it for now. I think nate and i are going to take our translator out for dinner tonight as an appreciation for helping us out. Hope eveything is going well for everyone. Talk to you all soon!
