I apologize for the silence.
At the moment I find myself back up in Chiang Mai for a month-long medical missionary training course. So far it's been busy and especially the last few days have been great! To say there's been plenty of spice to life would be an understatement!:) So far [most of us] have survived through food fasts, a 3/4 night prayer vigil, [a] 5 am morning class, parched grain... not to mention the cell phone confiscation of some, and, worse yet, the knowledge that singing a solo for your fellow classmates awaited any latecomers.....fantastic incentive, I must say - my current record of class attendance being proof enough (kinda...)!:)
We have an awesome doctor from Bangkok as our teacher this week. She's inspiring!
We're focusing on anatomy and physiology right now.
Did you know that if you didn't have kidneys you would have to drink 800 (yes, that's right - EIGHT HUNDRED) glasses of water each and every day in order to keep your body functioning properly? I, for one, decided that I'm thankful for 'em!
I've got to run get ready for class, but here's some food for thought:
"We spend the 1st 40 years of our lives spending our health on gaining wealth and the next 40 years of our lives spending our wealth on regaining our health." Sad and true for many, huh?
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Monday, July 5, 2010
At the risk of chasing half my readers away...
Sorry guys, I wasn't sure what to write and so I decided to put up some pics of one of my more recent suturing experiences, I hope this isn't overly disturbing to anyone.:)
One of our new students was cutting a banana tree and also managed to cut his finger pretty good as well as a smaller cut on the thumb. It was obviously going to require some stitching.
What you see here is slightly more sterile than it would appear due to the wonderful invention of rubbing alcohol...:/
Preparing to do a finger block. I'm afraid my patient dosen't look quite as enthused as myself.;)
Regretably, there are no pics of the actual suturing process or the finished product, but it took seven stitches and came together fine. GeChaMe, the young guy helping me, was a big help. He is one of our older students who is also a KNU soldier. He tells us he wants to become a doctor. He'll make an excellent one! Gayle was in the area and came and helped too as well as providing her expert advise - so wonderful when we get to have such a wonderful teacher around!:) I just love getting to do these kind of jobs, if you couldn't already tell (although this is only the 3rd one so far)!:)
One of our new students was cutting a banana tree and also managed to cut his finger pretty good as well as a smaller cut on the thumb. It was obviously going to require some stitching.
What you see here is slightly more sterile than it would appear due to the wonderful invention of rubbing alcohol...:/
Preparing to do a finger block. I'm afraid my patient dosen't look quite as enthused as myself.;)
Regretably, there are no pics of the actual suturing process or the finished product, but it took seven stitches and came together fine. GeChaMe, the young guy helping me, was a big help. He is one of our older students who is also a KNU soldier. He tells us he wants to become a doctor. He'll make an excellent one! Gayle was in the area and came and helped too as well as providing her expert advise - so wonderful when we get to have such a wonderful teacher around!:) I just love getting to do these kind of jobs, if you couldn't already tell (although this is only the 3rd one so far)!:)
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