MOst recently on Saturday we went to the Volcan pacaya. we all went with another family friend and his famly, short of julio roberto who had to go to work. we went in the back of the pick up and the weather changed so much in that short distance. it got more fresh. i took some video leaving town and on the volcano. we rode up on horses and walked the rest of the way with our young uide, of 15, elder. we maneuvered over hardened molten lava until we reached the top. where others were roasting marshmallows from the fresh lava. it was crazy being so close to it, as if any second we may be in the way of upcoming lava. we put a quarter in the hot lava and took it home as a recuerdo. it rained on the way bck but fortunatly we were not too wet. ana was cold! and it was not even cold at all i assure you. she´s just so used to warm wather. we take it with a grain of salt when they say it is going to be ´cold. haha. today we grilled some lomito marinatd in garlic and salt, ate some corn, and made some salsa with roasted tomatos, cilantro and onion. i made some salsa with the chiles chaltepos )piquines) and cilantro. i had shannon finish it off by putting lemon ' but she put way to much, and then the famly blammed me for putting too much lemon! who knew that girl needed so much supervision. i was mad that she didn´t speak up and say sorry my fault. brat. today we are just resting and tomorrow we start pediatrics
Feb 16 2010:
hey guys, chugging along over here. thigns are better. i am working er and they are atually letting me see patients by myself, super scary esp since i do´nt konw the names of meds here and stuff. today my patient this little old woman with light eyes siaid eres extranjera i said yes and she said ah por su accneto y por que estas muy amable it being nice is strange this world is twised. but its very hot and sweaty in the place., the docs are really nie. i helped to manually ventialte a woman today as well. she was very sick. what lelse oh i can now use a glucometer, do blood gases from the radial artery its good. timne is flying. and there is not enough time for everything. yesterday we made pizza for the fmaily. a bag of cheese was 14 dollars crazy
Feb 20 2010:
family came over and one of the wifes, here name is lady, took us out for a spin on her moto. she showed us all her favorite discotecs. she is this tiny little woman too. and then we took a series of pics on her scooter. everyone said how coool that papi had a vespa. it was a hard last day in the ER. three real emergencies. one of which died in front of everyone, she had an incarcerated hernia of her intestine that caused her to vomit blood and feces. it was petrifiying and absoluely gross they offered me the chnce to practice intubating on her afterwards, now that she was deceased, but i declined. and then our two favoirte little babies in the peds intensive care also died. i took a pic with the >Er team on my last day. they said my despedida was all the action in the ER today. ha.
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