Hola mis amigos! Como estan. Todo esta bien en Guayaquil. Este Semana estamos trabajando muchisimo! El Miercoles trabajamos en Duran en la casa de Alicia. Hicimos terapias osteopáticas de seis o siete personas. Fue muy bien. Pudimos ver la differencia despues de nuestro tratamientos. En la tarde fuimos al hosptial seguridad social a reunirnos con cynthia. Los otros dos fueron a cirugías y yo trabajé con cynthia en traumatologia. Yo vi una fractura radial distal y mucho otros casos de articulaciones. Hoy fuimos al hospital otra vez y vimos una cirugía de cáncer de pulmón. Y despues fuimos a la casa de Padre Damien y yo jugue dominos con los pacientes. Yo Perdí los primeros tiempos , pero por fin gané cinco veces de hacer campeón. ¡Estamos aprendiendo mucho!
For those of you who cant speak spanish I will sum it up for you again in English (note this is not a direct translation of the above).
We have been working a lot this week at a variety of different places. Yesterday we had the opportunity to practices some osteopathic manipulative medicines. We had a steady stream of patients from when we started until we left! We performed all sorts of techniques including a lot of soft tissue, muscles energy, and pedal pumps to help their respirations. They were very greatful for all of our help, and we noticed a difference in many of them when we finished.
In the afternoon we went to the hospital and met up with our friend Cynthia. She took Jeff and Christine up to watch a few surgeries and I stayed with her in Traumatology. I got to talk to a bunch of patients, and helped check them in and send them off for X rays. I saw a radial distal fracture and watched the doctor set it back into place. I also saw a couple more broken bones, and got to talk to a patient with viral encephalitis who had broken an arm, as well as a woman who fell on a rock and injured his knee. Basically I had a great time, and it really reinforced my opinion on emergency medicine.
Today we went back to the hospital early in the morning to watch another surgery with Cynthia and her fiance Jonas. Ill let Jeff tell you about it as surgery is more his thing than mine, but it was also a great experience. In the afternoon we went to Padre Damien. Christine and I talked to a few of the patients for a while about food and Ecuador. They are some of the friendliest people i have ever meet and love telling stories (even though christine and I struggle to follow them in spanish). After this we went and played dominos with some of the men. I ended up staying for 3 hours playing dominos. I quickly lost the first few rounds, but eventually won 5 which made me the champion! They liked having a challenge and asked me to come back soon and play some more!
Thats it for now! more to come later!
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