On my way to work in the morning, I rounded a corner and was surprised to see two horses walking down the road by themselves. ¨Where might they be going?¨ I thought.
During work at the hospital, our progress was rather slow because of a number of converging problems. We still haven´t heard back from the manufacture of the pulse-oximeters we´re trying to fix, and we don´t want to do something that damages the units. Furthermore, two separate sets of scrubs are needed for us to enter the maternity and surgical wards, preventing us from going in there today. In searching for spare parts throughout Olanchito, we had difficulty finding even the most basic components that could potentially be used in adapting incompatible tubing for sphygmomanometers.
After work today, I felt relatively well and went to the internet café for a few hours of time online. On the way there, however, I heard a strange sound behind me, and turned to see a baby horse—about six feet tall—chasing me in a frantic search for its mother. Turning back, the braying creature ran down the concrete road, weaving in and out of traffic. (We had already seen the same baby horse many times, running around behind its mother). At the café, I transcribed some notes of mine into email to send to the rest of the EWH Honduras students. Having translated into Spanish a few sets of questions we’re supposed to ask hospital staff, an EWH staff member working on a technician training curriculum for Honduras had asked me to share them. After that, I was again hungry and ate dinner, and if I’m feeling well tomorrow, I’ll go to the beach in Trujillo and snorkel in the Caribbean!
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