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| Jayme and Danielle right before she left (and we left for MMC.) (picture from Danielle) |
Well, Jayme left today. I miss her already. She was someone I could really talk to and goof off with, and her demeanor was always bubbly and fun. Before she left, she put all of her coffee and creamer in my cabinet, rather than the communal cabinet, because she knew how much I love coffee. I used some tonight and made and amazing cup of coffee with cinnamon. I wish she could have been here to try it.
It was so sweet - today while I was working in the pharmacy at the clinic, I had some down time, so I was just sitting on a box. Mike walked in, looked at me, and said, "You miss your friend, huh?" I half-smiled and nodded, and he came over and sat with me and talked with me while helping me bag pills. He's a good friend. :)
The clinic went to Chimwangombe (chim-wong-om-bay) today and we saw over 300 people. It was crazy! I worked in the pharmacy all day. I love it back there! I get to work with Danielle and Anna, I'm a little separated from the craziness of people in line, and I get to work with medicine. I'm learning about which medicine does what, different dosages for children and adults, etc. I really like bagging the quinine pills because they look like white M&Ms - the only problem is that they make me crave chocolate! :) I also like reconstituting suspensions, even thought it's a bit strange to just dip well water out of a bucket to make medicine. It's not the most sterile thing, but then again, neither is counting pills spread out on my skirt with my bare hands. I guess any medicine is better than none, but to my American self, it's very weird.
Gerda and Jenna made fried rice for dinner tonight. I'm just thankful it wasn't rice and beans like it usually is on clinic nights. Tomorrow we're going on home visits to Katondo!
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