Its Monday again! This morning I didn’t wake up with as much of the “Mondays” as I have the past few weeks, probably because we stayed in Chennai this weekend, and also because this is officially our last Monday of placement!
Although today wasn’t actually intended to be our last day of patient care, it turns out that it was! Tomorrow we are spending the day away from SPASTN, first visiting their community based rehab (CBR) center, and then new-born screening. We’ll hopefully also finish off the day with a home visit!
We also decided that we are going to take part in the workshop on NDT and sensory integration that is running this week (even though it will cost us 1000 INR each), because we feel like it will help to fill in some of the things that we should have learned throughout this internship, and didn’t. It may not be a recognized course for us at home, but I think it will be useful and interesting all the same. BUT, that will take up Wednesday through Friday…so no more patient care for us!
My patient was kind of a hell-beast today, unfortunately. I guess he’s gotten to know me to the point where he feels like he can misbehave (should I be flattered?). It started off sweet and innocent…he didn’t really want to do the exercises that I wanted him to do, and was trying to distract me by blowing kisses and stuff. But then when he figured out that I wasn’t going to let him off that easily he started pinching me (and even Priyanka who was holding the cones that he was supposed to be reaching for), and tugging on my ears. He even inadvertently elbowed me in the nose! Anyways, so it wasn’t the best treatment session I’ve had with him, and a crappy way to end off my patient care experience, but meh. At least this time, it wasn’t crappy due to my own incompetence.
After work we decided to run some errands in Thiravanmyiur. We’d wanted to make another trip to Mylapore, but it was raining on and off, so we decided to save that for tomorrow. The first stop was the post office, where we (finally!) sent some post cards. Then we headed to Cotton House (which has everything under the sun) so that I could buy a second carry-on luggage. I came to India with one carry-on and two suit cases (one mostly filled with food) and I’m trying to condense my stuff into one bag (the one suitcase I brought is a duffle and should fit inside the other bag now that the food and toys we brought are gone). Jet Lite, the airline we’re flying to Delhi with on Saturday, has a one checked bag per person rule, unfortunately. I think condensing to one bag won’t be a problem, but I’m a little afraid that its going to be overweight. We’ll see I guess. Anyways, I’m going to put some clothing for Delhi in my new carryon, plus some breakable items that I don’t trust to go into my checked luggage.
After Cotton House we went to the tailor (a new, more upscale one that we found next to Cotton House) to get the blouse piece that goes along with my sari tailored (a lot of sari’s come with a piece of fabric that you take to the tailor to get made into the blouse that goes underneath the actual sari). It took a little convincing, but my custom tailored blouse piece should be ready by Thursday evening, for only 170 INR (less than 5 bucks – about 1/10th of what I would have paid in Canada!).
We also did a little bit more Sari shopping, and Priyanka found a few nice pieces for some of her friends at home. We arrived home around 7pm, and had a leisurely dinner of dahl, chappati and yogurt. The rest of the evening I’ve just been catching up on blogging, talking to family etc. I feel like I’m forgetting to do something…hmm. Anyways, this last week will be a busy one, so we have to make every moment count!
Well, I think that’s all for tonight! More Tomorrow!
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