All Good Things Must come to an end

Sadly I'm down to my last days. With the interns here my days have been full with clinic, answering their questions, teaching them, and working on posters for health education talks i've been giving once a week and Las Pitas clinic and Sedano clinic. Monday I set my record for the most patients I've seen in a 3-4 hour half day (we comute 2+ hours each way to get to the clinic, so that doesn't leave us much time to see all the patients who've also walked 3-4 hours to get there and then wait for their turn): I saw 20 patients at Las PItas and Lexie (the nurse) saw the other 3. Today we had 45 patients, but Dr. Juliette was with us. I got there late with the interns and the driver for the interns, Joel, because the vehicle he drives wouldn't start this morning (like usual) and they finally had to wait on the mechanic. I gave my 30-45 minute health discussion/class/talk in Spanish and then joined Dr. Juliette in seeing patients. I think I may have seen 15 patients, and she saw the rest.
Tomorrow is my last day to work and then I fly out of Tegus on Friday at noon. Then back to the real world. I fly into Houston on friday and have to be in Tulsa by 6pm Sunday for the beginning of my internship/residency orientation. At some point (probably Sunday) i plan to pass through Ft. Worth to pick up the last of my stuff from my place in Ft Worth to complete my move up to Tulsa. :(
And life goes on.
On a happy note, I've been running at the ranch every day since i've been here. I've only missed 2 days since I've been here. Katie, one of the missionaries has been running with me too. And today two of the intern guys (Bryan and Chanler) ran with me. Yeah for running! :)

Multi-tasking

I'm having a great time. my spanish is getting a lot better and i'm getting more comfortable with treating patients with the limited medicines we have. i now have "interns" working with me. most are premed or pre-nursing, so i'm talking to the patient in spanish, translating in english (because the two/three I've been working with this week don't speak any spanish), teaching the pre-med students about the condition/disease we're seeing while writing down my H&P note (which has history of present illness, physical exam, diagnosis and treatment) in spanish. All i can say is that its a good thing that everyones so patient around here (I saw 6 patients and did all this in 2-3 hours or so today, while at the same time Dr. Juliet (the Honduran doctor) saw the other 32 patients. :) Oh well. I"m doing my best. Good thing I've got a great God who likes working through losers like me! :)

The interns arrived two saturdays ago. there are 13 of them and they're spread out through out the various projects through out the week. They're here for 10 weeks.

Some tropical storm just came through. It's rainy season here, so normally its sunny during the day and rains in the late afternoon/evening. While the store came through it rained hard for like 72+ hours straight. All the rivers were flooded, and it was near impossible to get anywhere. Even the airport was closed for 3+ days in Tegusigalpa. But the sun came out today and yesterday for what seems like the first time in a long time...and with it the heat :) You can't win :)