A schedule of sorts

October 7th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized

I thought I might comment on what my schedule has been looking like.

Every morning I wake up  a little before 7 and take a cold but running shower (it almost wakes me up).  I then put on my salway kameez (which ever one turns up next in the cycle) and stumble out to the common dining area.  Breakfast awaits along with the other students.  It always consists of tea with milk and sugar, a spongy toast, cornflakes, porridge,  a boiled egg, and bananas.  Today I tried to mis it up and put the porridge in with the cornflakes and banana and skipped the egg cause I felt like living on the edge.  I then grab my dupatta and head to devotion.

Daily devotion is from 8-8:45 and half the time is singing.  The songs are all in Hindi and we have a phonetic song book.  The rest is a message that is also in Hindi but has occasional english bits thrown in so I can get the general idea of what is happening.

After devotion all of the doctors meet briefly in case there are any pressing issues with the patients.  Then, on medicine, we start rounding.  We start in the 6 bed ICU that has 3 ventilators.  If anyone else needs to be ventilated then a relative has to bag them by hand the entire time until a ventilator clears up.  Then it is on to the general wards where there are about 40 patients to round on.  Then private room patients and occasionally one of the two old ladies that the hospital takes care of nursing home style.  Paper work is done for discharges.

(posting now just in case the connection is fickle)

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