- Somewhat slippery.
- Either freezing or scalding.
- Big enough to wash a Volkswagen as well as yourself, but only a trickle of water will flow down upon the both of you.
- Those that have windows that open onto the street below.
- Those that have exposed wiring around the spigot leading to the contraption that heats the water to either scalding temperature or reminds you of a dip in lake Michigan with the January Polar Bear Club.
- Those whose exposed wiring has been known to catch on fire the hair of a young lady who stands more than six feet tall (true story!).
- Those which I am slowly figuring out how to modulate the variable flow rates to get a somewhat tolerable temperature.
- Preferable to walking around all day and night so sweaty and greasy that, when you move, your clothes don't always travel in the same direction!
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| ______________________________________________________________________ I've only seen this once since 1987! X-rays of a 19-month old Guatemalan girl with wide-set eyes, slightly blue sclerae, open cranial sutures and severe bowing of all her long bones. In addition to a diaper full of caca, these films are consistent with Ricketts due to vitamin D deficiency. We prescribed Tums and recommended that mom take her baby out in the sunlight every day. Hopefully, we can check this child again on our mission trip next year. The pictures are a little difficult to make out because there are no functioning X-ray view Boxes down here and I had to hold up the film to the window to take the picture.  _______________________________________________ So, today, Wednesday, was a usual day except the power to the whole city was turned off for a while. The. Hospital generator would work the anesthesia machine and tourniquet box, but not the A/C. At one point the a/c came back on, but not the lights. Finished the case by flashlight and soaking in my own sweat. I'm always hot and always thirsty down here!  ____________________________________________________ |
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