Moving soon!

This weekend I'll be moving to an apartment a few hundred yards from my current house. As long as things go well I'll stay there for the rest of my stay. It's a new apartment building, gated, with air conditioning and wireless internet. It's just a room with a bathroom, but it will do. It's partially furnished, but I'll still get a couple triangular pillow/mats to sit on and maybe a mini-fridge. I'm having a hard time with the fridge though because they seem really expensive, well more than a month's rent. Still, I'm only paying $95/month, so it's really not that much in the end.

I'm in pediatric outpatient this week. I'm finding outpatient clinics to be the most difficult because there's no time to think. You see a patient, give them a diagnosis, then send them out. At least when they are staying you have a chance to research things. Peds is the most like medicine at home: ear aches, bronchiolitis etc. After Loy Krathong we have seen quite a few hand injuries from fireworks.

There are some guys doing optho surgery at the clinic. I've enjoyed watching them. There are a few hundred extra people staying at the clinic waiting for their chance to have cataract or other surgery. Not sure if these kids are related to the new influx of campers, but there are about 5 kids who have been playing in a certain area all week, and their only toy seems to be a handful of rubber bands. I've seen a lot of inventive games. Today it was something like bocce-ball except the rubber bands are on the pavement and you blow them to get them to move.

Things aren't too exciting. Every day is of course radically different from life at home, but I'm not noticing it as much. I'm staying very busy and being productive, but I'm so overwhelmed on all sides that it feels like I'm not doing anything. I think I'll emerge knowing a lot more than I used to. Lately my project has been reading all the neonatology stuff that I was supposed to read on my peds rotation 18 months ago. Not exciting, but useful.