Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Day 3

Addressing a couple recent comments, a Crit is a bike race, typically run on a circuit course, run multiple laps for 45 - 60 min. The area here at the compound could lend itself to a really decent cyclocross/ cross country mtb course. The roads are just wide enough, and rough enough. Might need to run 34mm tires though. Paul, one of the Haitian Techs, rides his bike to work every day. I'll bring it up and report back.

I don't know the temperature here. Does it really ever matter? If you are hot, then shed. If you are cold, then insulate. It is hot, and thick. During the course of the day I go from just kinda hot to dripping wet, back to just kinda hot...the wet again. It depends on the activity and proximity to a fan. I sleep near a window, sheet or no covers at all, with a ceiling fan blowing on high and another positioned somewhat near my feet, blowing directly on me. But I sleep well.....till the cock crows.

Today's morning was a little slower, but still plenty to do. Patients coming for therapy always need some adjustments, and what a perfect setting to do it in.

The afternoon brought the exact opposite. A bus load from an Israeli clinic in Port au Prince came. The clinic was packed. The Israeli clinic apparently, is limited in access to practitioners and equipment. Castings, fittings and deliveries brought us straight out till dinner.

The pic above is Paul and Tcho, 2 great Haitian technicians preparing one of my casts.

Till tomorrow.
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5 comments:

  1. Those Israelians are everywhere! Have you established the crit race yet? We feel you have had plenty of time to weld a bike together with all the extra supplies and should be zooming around the place by now.

    your peeps! - Vernon
    (ps you should be proud of our office for writing group emails because it shows our solidarity as a team)

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  2. Hi Paul from eaveryone in Methuen. You say it's hot there, if you get a sray bottle with a fine mist, put cold water in it and when you are hot
    spray yourself. It works better when a fan is blowing on you. Earle

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  3. Paul, the Haitian may say to you, I have to ride the bike to work over that bumpy road, why do you want to do it for fun?

    Hope to see Anna's game Sat.

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  4. Liked your descriptions of daily life, food, homes, etc. It's awesome what you are doing there.

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