Day 11 - Tues, Jun 17, 2025

Today was relatively uneventful, I was in triage, and it was a lot of pregnant women and kids getting checkups.

There was one good one; a woman came in and one whole side of her face was swollen and droopy.  The area around her eye was particularly swollen, and she had some stitches on her cheek that looked like she had a stent at one point.  She had the same look my dog had after she was bit in the face by a rattlesnake.  I was thinking to myself, it's only a matter of time before that infection rots her brain and she's eating out of a straw.  Seriously, I didn't even know where to begin with her.

When I went to take her blood pressure, she said I couldn't because she was there because of her hand. 😳. It was at that moment I realized she had a towel or something around her hand and a jacket over it ... Apparently as bad as her face looked, her hand was worse.  Easy decision - let me send you back to see my colleague, Dr Jon...

Other interesting thing - the locals here don't really like the doctors or the clinic and think it's a s*** show. So tonight someone who knew someone came by our place and asked if she could see me.  She had a large bump on the side of her breast, like the size of a tennis ball, and was afraid it might be cancer.  So long story short, I ruled out cancer and landed on an insect bite; hard to say which one exactly because most all of them here are trying to kill you.  But I gave her some antibiotics and pain pills, and told her to go to the clinic tomorrow and I would give her some IV antibiotics.  

It's only a matter of time before I have to start setting office hours 😊

Other interesting thing - diabetic foot lady's daughter literally dropped off her kids at the hospital for Grandma to watch.  Now Grandma was laid out with morphine, and couldn't walk if she wanted to ... So basically the kids ran around the hospital all day like it was their living room.  And no one really seemed to think that was unusual.

breakfast buffet

they put all their medical files in bags

the ER bed is literally sitting on a car block

entrance to the ER is a little different than home 

The grandkids were playing in a drainage ditch.  Can't imagine why everyone has an infection 🙄



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  1. MarkJune 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM

    My side patient came in the next day and was already better. Gave her IV antibiotics, and checked her out today (Thursday) and she was mostly good as new. +1

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