Clinics: Day 2

Local fruit, don't know what it is called but it tastes good!  You eat the white part, spit out the seeds.

Tuesday April 29, 2014

Stayed quite warm and humid all night.  Never cooled off at all.  Whew, woke up sweating and stayed sweating aaaaaallllll day! 

I sat outside on our veranda this morning, eating fresh watermelon, pineapple and fresh baked zucchini bread.  And took lots of photos of some birds that have been hiding from me!  Don’t know what kind they are.  Need to find out.  Very pretty and fun to watch.  They were catching little bugs for breakfast.  Speaking of bugs, there have been very few!  No mosquitos or other flying bugs.  Has been very nice!  But there are fire ants in the grass.  Have to be very careful about standing in grass.  The ants will be on you and biting before you realize it!  They inject formic acid and it really burns.  Just rinsing off with cool water takes care of it, but the bites really sting!

The birthday girl: Dr. Michelle Ward.

Today is my roommate’s birthday. Dr Michelle Ward turned 48!  She brought a button, party hat and funny glasses to wear all day at clinics.  Hmmm, there may even be some cake today!

Our leader, Karen, checking out a darling ridgeback puppy.

When we arrived at the clinic, there was no one there yet!  We were concerned that clients would not show up… but they did.  We were moderately busy all day.  Lots of medical appointments that our trusty leader, Karen, was seeing.  We had some pretty involved surgeries, but all the critters did well.  We were all melting all day, but we made it through.  Then: we DID have cake!  One of the volunteers with the humane society made a chocolate cake for Michelle’s birthday!  Yummo!!  We enjoyed it with some “squash”, a drink made with lime concentrate similar to limeade, but not as sweet.  It was really good.

Beth, awesome tech, with a visiting local veterinarian

Lindsey in recovery giving tender loving care to recovering patients.

Local veterinarian observing Kelly doing surgery.

We all went back to the hotel, cleaned up and headed up into town to have dinner.  A group of us ended up at a Chinese restaurant that was very good!  But they serve French fries with egg rolls!  AND no chopsticks!  Too funny!  Followed up with ice cream… I had sour sop flavor!

Tomorrow is our last day of clinics.  Hope we stay nice and busy!

Until tomorrow!

Cute little patient.

Jackie visiting with Patty (she made the birthday cake!)