Blogged if you do and blogged if you don{t

I know that I{ve been writing blogs the American way this whole time (Patriotic and humble), but because I{m stuck with a Bolivian keyboard, I thought I{d give you a taste of Bolivia by typing up a blog using this [crazy[ keyboard. So instead of apostrophe{s, you{ll see brackets and instead of quotes you{ll see that other kind of weird bracket.

So I just got back from Country Gooding Junior (a country so wacky that they named an actor after it) and boy is my liberty tired. I{m not aloud to say the name, but it{s famous for the trade embargo imposed on it and t-shirts with some dude named Chet on them. It was like that time that Sam Becket got sent back in time to the 1950}s and had to prevent a vanguard revolution and he couldn{t figure out why he couldn{t leap until he realized it wasn{t the revolution he had to stop, but the marriage a dictator to his highschool sweetheart who everyone knew he didn{t really love, thus saving space-time-God-everything forever. It was an okay episode.

This week, a woman named Aydee who works at our clinic was put into the hospital to have a cardiac cathederization. This procedure will reveal whether or not she needs to have an open heart surgery, a stent, or not. It is very expensive and the surgery is even more expensive. The procedure itself will cost around 600 dollars, which is a fifth of our budget for a month, and the surgery might end up costing around 6,000 dollars. So this is a pretty big thing. Normally our surgeries for the month, we do one or two, cost around 200-300 dollars total. She works for us and lives with us at the clinic, so are going to do it everything we need to, whereas normally we might have to discuss it some more.

As I was not in Bolivia last week (the country where the famous Chet Gutenberg was killed by the Center for Immunizing Animals, a major agency for the Unlimited Stuff for All-People), the volunteers had to survive without me. And did they ever! They sent two patients to Santa Cruz, the big city, to be seen by specialists and took really good notes for me for when I got back from Country Gooding Jr.

This week we{re going to cook Thanksgiving dinner (turkey burgers and egg nog) at the clinic and in Santa Cruz. That{s two more dinners than the piligrims ever had with the indians, which is zero.

I will be going back to Chicago in December, but I{ll be staying here for all of next year, unless the Center for Immunizing Animals has anything to say about it.

¡Peace out!

¡mike!