Our trip out to La Cuadrilla was more successful than yesterday – the town knew we were coming this time, and many people showed up to have their blood pressure, glucose, and vision checked! We only got a little lost on our way out there this morning – it is amazing how many little towns are out there once you turn off the main road – but after that everything went well. Dr. Clark was a huge help talking with everyone, giving medical advice, filling out surveys, and even meeting one of the women that she recognized in a documentary about immigration – “Letters from the Other Side.” The TV crew again showed up – luckily Michael brought his Mexican TV personality and wowed the media again. We saw over 40 people, which was a lot of finger-prickin’, glucose-checkin’, blood-pressurin’, waist-measurin’, eye-screenin’, survey-takin’ action for one day. Apparently the town we’re going to tomorrow will have an even bigger turnout, so hopefully we’re prepared for that!
This evening we got our hopes up for rain – which, according to some people, hasn’t happened in SMA in like 2 years – however, dusty conditions prevailed. Descriptions of nasal mucus ensued (hey, we’re all med students here) and from the combination of the dusty conditions out in the communities and the pollution in the city, we’re talking about some pretty interesting nasal mucus. And you know it’s pretty late for me to keep blogging and I just wrote a whole blurb about nasal mucus, so that’s probably a sign that this entry should come to an end.
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