Life here has been frustrating lately.  The level of technology I have access to can leave me aggravated beyond reason at times.  Like to download some photos I couldn't just go across the street because those computers suck too much so I had to go to Bandra on my way back from Churchgate.  Except no, the train was too packed so I couldn't get off ( Read more... )

For breakfast I ate much too much of the muesli I bought yesterday.  It was delicious but left my stomach aching for a little while.  The rest of the day though was most auspicious.  Clinic today was awesome.  I’ve started this custom rotation wherein I am at various leprosy clinics around Mumbai working with this physical therapist (although I ( Read more... )

R.I.P.  Shadow 1993-2007


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“Oh my God!”
Words you generally don’t want to hear in a doctor’s office,

but especially if its elicited by the doctor looking at you blood report.

I was feeling significantly better when I got up this morning.  Still sick mind you but not the crippling unpleasantness of gestern.  I got up early, had myself a nice breakfast (I figured out how to ( Read more... )

I am alive but incapacitated.  I get blood tests tomorrow.  Enteric fever (aka Typhoid) and Malaria, words bandied about while I sit in the doctors office.  I'm pulling for Japanese Encephalitis because wouldn't that be exciting?!  Will respond to stuff tomorrow...

Woohoo! Power!  Consistent power!  Its been raining and flooding in Mumbai the last couple of days which has led to power outages of varying lengths of time and widespreadedness.  Yesterday was the worse with power being out for much of the afternoon.  We (Susan, Susan II, Sarah, Chrissy and myself) ended up going to the liquor store (didn't know ( Read more... )

So anyways yeah, horribly lost, after dark not terribly concerned.  I tried grabbing a cab to the Grant Road Station but they all wanted to charge me obscene amounts.  I eventually found one that was semi reasonable but very much over priced.  I had a similar issue in Santa Cruz getting to guest house.  At this point I was about ready to flip my ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a roller coaster ride both in terms of achievements and, more worrisomely, my emotional status.  I ate a lot of ice cream.  Clinic in the morning was fairly uneventful in terms of patients.  There were a couple but mostly the people who came in seemed to be drug reps.  I got free samples of too which was awesome and kind of weird.  ( Read more... )

Well I'm starting to get a lot better  I've been totally incapacitated the last few days recovering from my crippling food poisoning.  I had  some difficulty breathing (from pollution and exertion) en route to the Regal Theater in Colaba (I'm fine Mom, don't panic).  There I saw Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, which is in fact totally amazing.  This ( Read more... )

So I meant to post yesterday but as I had horrific food poisoning (which I’ll describe later) I couldn’t make it down the hall without throwing up much less a block to the cyber café.

Thursday, I went to an MSM clinic here which was fairly interesting.  One of the guys there gave me an overview of the different services the place provides and ( Read more... )