Mototaxi ride to get to clinical- this little cart is attached to kind of a mini motorcycle.
In the afternoon we went on more home visits. We were mainly doing blood pressure screenings. A lot of the people we saw today bordered on being hypertensive, so in a couple days someone will be back to take BPs again. I was feeling great since I'm like normal height here (Peruvians are pretty short!) until once again I was told by a patient "You could be 15" in espanol. I am 21. No big deal. Anyways, one of the elderly men we saw kept kind of asking us to live with him. After much deliberation, we figured you would all miss us too much if we stayed in Piura. Oh well. Our last visit included giving an older woman a haircut and cutting nails. She lived with several generations of family, and they were very inviting and wanted to talk and take pictures of us. So inviting that they gave us some homemade juice to drink. It's super rude to decline when offered food/drink. So Lauryn & I are kinda nervous about how our stomachs are going to feel about that juice tonight. We ended the visit by praying with the family and snagging another mototaxi back to the parish.
Hygiene Care
Our last patient & her little grandson! All the babies I see around are really chubby, it's great.
After dinner tonight we walked to get ice cream. They had my favorite flavor that I can never find in the U.S. (coconut)
No comments:
Post a Comment