i had a pretty good day today.
it started off with me being fairly well prepared for a taller on HIV/AIDS that i was gonna give at 10am. at 8:15 the social worker said she was going to give a HIV charla to a group of people waiting to get tested and she was like do u wanna give it. i was caught off guard because i thought i'd have an extra 2 hours to finalize everything but i said sure why not. so i got up there with the help of two awesome companeras and we gave a fantastic charla. it was good because it gave me a chance to practice and perfect the charla for 10am.
then i had a meeting with the program director to see how i was doing and what i'm looking for in a site. we had a good talk and basically i told him i'm open to whatever/wherever/with whom ever. he asked who i couldn't work with and i gave a short list (in comparrison to the one one of my training sites mates gave) and he asked what kind of climate and i said i would prefer a calido, not too hot, not too cold but even that was not a requirement. Really, i'm here to serve so i feel like its unfair for me to put restrictions or stipulations on the type of environment i can work in.
after that i had a great cheese and herb sammi from a health food store in antigua which was fan-freaking-tastic. i had a chance to walk back to the health center alone which was nice cuz i'm hardly ever alone here. it was a bit of a sureal moment to realize that in about a month i'll be along A LOT.
when i got back i started to shadow a nurse who was giving vaccines. at first there wasn't much to do cuz no one was there and she was also the nurse who was in charge of the pharmacy so she kept going back and forth leaving me to hang out in the room alone. finally we were about to start a small project when some girl from the UK came in after being bitten by a cat. she got her pre exposure rabies shots and was there for a post exposure booster. she didn't speak spanish at all so i got the chance to be a translator. it was kinda awesome (for me not for her...). the only problem is that here in Guate they don't do pre-exposure vaccines, they only do a series of 5 post-exposure shots. the girl (who was in her first year in med school) thought there was only one universal kind of rabies shot, which i thought was a bit closed minded. the nurse didn't understad what it meant to have pre-exposure rabies vaccines but once i figured out all of that it was great. it ended up that the girl got one shot, was told to go back and get a second shot on saturday and in the mean time call her doctor and have him find out if she needs the whole round of 5 or if 2 is good. oh yea, and btw the cat probably didn't have rabbies and the bite didn't break the skin, but its always better to shoot up i guess...
oh yea and i forgot, i had chocolate panqueques (pancakes) for breakfast. yumm, not wonder i haven't lost much weight since i got here.
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