Today is my birthday. My golden birthday, in fact. Twenty years of age on the twentieth of the month. And here I am in a foreign country. “Where you lead me, I will follow. No turning back, no turning back.”
Decent day. Went down and emailed/facebooked, attempted to blog in the morning before breakfast. When I got back up to the house, everyone was just sitting down at the table to eat. After prayer, they sang me Happy Birthday and I opened a card from them. Very awesome, signed by each one with a little note. It was pretty cool. :)
Scott and I saw several patients this morning, although nothing too fascinating. When we got down to the clinic in the morning, we moved some beds around in the OR so we could move the sonogram machine down there. Denise was doing her consultations in that room, and today is OB day. After Scott and I finished up with the few non-OB patients, we went in to Denise's room and watched the ultrasounds and dopplers being down. Grace was translating for Denise. They were basically just trying to determine age of the baby, as almost all of the women were there for the first time (for the pregnancy). Some were 37 weeks along, and it was their first visit.
Denise did full ultrasounds on the first four of her patients to get comfortable with the machine, and then decided to do just the consultations and dopplers. If the age was uncertain, she would do ultrasounds. By the time she'd done those first four, however, word had spread that one could see one's baby via the picture machine. Each patient after that requested an ultrasound.
I learned how use the doppler to get the baby's heart rate, and did that on a few patients. One mother was having twins and didn't know it. Till today, that is. Via the ultrasound, Denise found a second baby alive and well. The mother looked pretty happy. :) Also developed a couple more x-ray films, although I did one upside down. Lol
Watched Defiance (with Daniel Craig) tonight. Based on a true story during WWII. It's pretty violent, got a bit of language, and some sexual innuendo, but beyond that, it was a decent movie. I think I liked it, which was surprising. It was a bit thought-provoking.
Okay, it's late. I'm really just journaling so I will stay awake while my iPod charges enough to get through the night. I think it's done enough now. :)
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