June
15, 2015
We only have two
weeks left of our amazing adventure. I have a feeling they will go by fast.
Since I don’t have the ability to slow down time, so I will have to savor my
time here in Trichy. We arrived back at Bishop Heber from Pondicherry at
3:30am, so I was very tired going into work, but work was fun as always. Dr.
Jeremiah has become my hero and getting to spend time with your hero is every
kids’ dream. So I guess I’m living the dream. Per usual, most the patients that
came in to the clinic, were pregnant women having their monthly checkup and
infertile women trying to become pregnant. Once in a while, we had patients
that didn’t have problems dealing with pregnancy. A woman, her husband, and her
eldest daughter came in today, the mother had a tumor growing on her brain and
was experiencing multiple seizures. They have gone to multiple doctors but
received the same answer, it would be too dangerous to operate because the
operation could leave the mother paralyzed. Becoming desperate, they came to
Dr. Jeremiah because she has been their family Ob/Gyn for two generation and
they trust her. She advised them that the best solution currently, was to wait
it out and see if the growth becomes cancerous, if it does, they would operate.
It was awkward to watch the family cry, so I kept my head down the entire time,
hoping to make myself invisible. Not quite sure if it worked…
I
treated myself to two scoops of ice-cream tonight, I thought it was well
deserved after making it back safe from our crazy adventure in Pondicherry. It
might just be my sweet tooth craving tons of sugar. India has given me a crazy
sweet tooth and I’m not sure if my weight will ever be the same after this
trip. A worker at the ice cream shop was very disappointed to see that I was
only wearing one ankle bracelet, instead of one on each leg. She couldn’t
understand why I chose to only wear one. I must have looked unstylish in her
eyes. If I ever had a list of people I’ve majorly disappointed, this woman
would be on the top of that list.
Day 16 in Trichy and I must buy another ankle
bracelet.
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