January 10
I got another patient who speaks some English! I'm not really sure how much she truly understands, but some communication is better than none... She is a 12 year old who had a case of necrotizing fasciitis and had to have the infected tissue surgically removed. Now she has a huge scar where the graft was placed, almost no ankle range of motion, and Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. What saddens me is that the exercises she is getting seem to be largely the same standard ones given out to all of the pediatric patients, which will only provide a limited amount of gains for improving ankle motion.
I also worked with a 14 year old girl with scoliosis. She was really sweet, but understood almost no English. This made giving her instructions for a home program really difficult!
We had to leave work early because Dr. Mani (who founded my scholarship) is in town, and we were supposed to meet with him. What I thought would be a casual gathering ended up being a somewhat formal meeting about arrangements and orientation for incoming international students. The meeting wasn't very exciting, but we got free dinner at the Alumni House! It was the best meal that I have had so far in India, but when I asked what it was no one could tell me. The best response I got was "cauliflower in a capsacin gravy?" I was telling Devi about it later that night, and she thought it might be Gobi Manchurian. Based on what I have found online, I think she was right.
January 11
I fell behind in my journalling, so when I got to writing about this day I couldn't remember anything that had happened! Not good! It was really just another day in the gymnasium with nothing exciting happening that night, but I don't remember any more details that that!
January 12
This was really just another typical work day, but since it was a Wednesday we made the weekly trek to Darling for dinner. I finally gave in and ordered pizza, but I had to put up quite a fight to finally get my pizza. Almost everyone had finished eating, and my pizza still hadn't come! And in true Indian fashion, the only response from our servers was "Yeah, yeah yeah." This response left us not sure whether they understood that my dinner was missing or if anything was being done about it. We had to ask several times, but it was so worth the wait. The pizza isn't as good as anything at home, but it came out hot and covered in vegetables! (And trust me, it's hard to get dinner with produce that is easily recognizable here!)
I got another patient who speaks some English! I'm not really sure how much she truly understands, but some communication is better than none... She is a 12 year old who had a case of necrotizing fasciitis and had to have the infected tissue surgically removed. Now she has a huge scar where the graft was placed, almost no ankle range of motion, and Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. What saddens me is that the exercises she is getting seem to be largely the same standard ones given out to all of the pediatric patients, which will only provide a limited amount of gains for improving ankle motion.
I also worked with a 14 year old girl with scoliosis. She was really sweet, but understood almost no English. This made giving her instructions for a home program really difficult!
We had to leave work early because Dr. Mani (who founded my scholarship) is in town, and we were supposed to meet with him. What I thought would be a casual gathering ended up being a somewhat formal meeting about arrangements and orientation for incoming international students. The meeting wasn't very exciting, but we got free dinner at the Alumni House! It was the best meal that I have had so far in India, but when I asked what it was no one could tell me. The best response I got was "cauliflower in a capsacin gravy?" I was telling Devi about it later that night, and she thought it might be Gobi Manchurian. Based on what I have found online, I think she was right.
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| Picture of Gobi Manchurian that I found online |
January 11
I fell behind in my journalling, so when I got to writing about this day I couldn't remember anything that had happened! Not good! It was really just another day in the gymnasium with nothing exciting happening that night, but I don't remember any more details that that!
January 12
This was really just another typical work day, but since it was a Wednesday we made the weekly trek to Darling for dinner. I finally gave in and ordered pizza, but I had to put up quite a fight to finally get my pizza. Almost everyone had finished eating, and my pizza still hadn't come! And in true Indian fashion, the only response from our servers was "Yeah, yeah yeah." This response left us not sure whether they understood that my dinner was missing or if anything was being done about it. We had to ask several times, but it was so worth the wait. The pizza isn't as good as anything at home, but it came out hot and covered in vegetables! (And trust me, it's hard to get dinner with produce that is easily recognizable here!)
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