July 1st, 2010
Working the Triage line and practicing my Spanish
Today I did Triage with Jeanie, Michael, Pallavi, and Dave (from Loyola). I think we all did a great job overall. I was able to learn a lot of medical Spanish today like “tienas algunas alerigias de medicinas?” and a lot more phrases…It was difficult at first because I wanted to say everything in French! I learned so much doing Triage and it was so much fun. I’ll probably do Triage again soon. In total, we saw 297 patients yesterday and 157 patients today. The staff has been incredible with making things easier for us. They are very receptive to any of our suggestions to make this as smooth as possible for everyone.
Gladis came back today! She was so sweet. If I were doing in-takes I would’ve spent so much more time with her. When she came up to me she gave me a pair of butterfly earrings as a gift! I couldn’t believe she did that. I was so surprise and touched by her gift. This will probably be the best souvenir from the whole trip. I wanted to give them back to her but she insisted that I keep it. Yesterday I knew I wanted to give her my Western U bone pen necklace so I made sure I gave it to her today as a memorabilia of our Western U group. J I will miss her!
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