Well, faithful Bloggers and Bloggees, I've resigned from my post as clinic coordinator once again. You're probably asking yourself, "But, Mike! What are you going to do now?" Then, you're probably thinking, "Oh, well, it's probably not really any of my business. Look at me! I'm being as nosy as a Nosy Sarah." It's only natural to have feelings of nosiness from time to time. As growing boys and girls, nosiness can creep up on you without any warning. You might even find yourself with a case of nosiness in the most awkward of places, such as a classroom or church meeting. Whenever I feel a bit nosy, I just look myself in the mirror or in the reflection of someone's sunglasses and say, "Mike, now is not the time."
But, as for the clinic, I realized that I've left you hanging on a few stories. For example, the woman, Aidee, who we sent for a cardiac catheterization had one done and the doctors found nothing, so her heart appeared to be fine. Then, she and her husband, Celso, the caretakers of the clinic, up and left with only about a day's notice for a different job. We were all taken by surprise and all pretty beat up about the whole thing. So, we all went out for milkshakes and talked about it and, by the end, we all felt a lot better. Except me, I was still a little peeved because Celso said he wanted my biscotti and I told him he could have a piece and then he ate the whole thing. He said I could use a diet. Can you believe that! But then he called "caballero" because he knows how much I like it when he calls me that and I couldn't stay mad.
Dr. Duke also came and did a surgery on a prolapsed bladder. I always wondered what a bladder was. My dad thinks its one of the more extinct dinosaurs, but I thought it was still alive. Then it turned out to be part of the female anatomy. I always wondered what the female anatomy was. My dad thinks its the study of the stars in the sky and I agreed. It turns out to be the same thing as male anatomy but for ladies. Anyways, Duke did the surgery and it all went great. The lady who's bladder was falling through her vagina now feels a lot more comfortable. And we can do more small surgeries at this hospital in the future, such as: hernia repair, gall bladder surgeries, hysterectomy, appendectomy, the works! I'm not sure what kind of surgery the works is, but it sounds fun!
The man we sent into Santa Cruz recently for a heart check up was a bit non compliant, going to Santa Cruz, getting an EKG done and then refusing to do more tests and going back to Palacios. We sent him back to Santa Cruz a bit worried that he'd need a pace maker for his low heart rate, as is often the case with people with Chagas disease, but it turned out that he just had a virus that caused a low heart rate and now he's all better and still has Chagas. Chagas is a life long disease for the most part. It causes problems with the heart and abdomen and things like that, but you can't really do anything about it until these big problems present themselves. Just about everyone I know from Palacios has Chagas. It comes from a big bug that lives in thatched roofs that comes out at night, bites your skin and then poops into your bloodstream. I'm not sure if I have all of those details right. I could look it up to double check, but there's no time. I'm blogging!
Rachel does not have anymore Dengues as far as I'm aware of. So she's returned to her post as coordinator. She said, "Thanks, Mike. I couldn't have done it without you. Here's a lollipop."
As for the blogs. Blogs are a beautiful thing because you can do them anywhere. On a bus. On a train. Under a bridge. In a drain. Just remember, don't you all blog too much. Long term blogging affects the brain.
MIKE
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