WHAT A WEEKEND!

July 1, 2008

Ok, so first off...Wara was in Santa Cruz this whole weekend.

Friday, I was finally feeling better (been sick all last week) and hung out with the volunteers all day. Helped out at an orphanage with two other volunteers. A lot of fun.

Saturday, I did some house work and then went to Patita's grandparents' house for lunch and then back to her's with my sleepover bag and laundry....hehehe.

Saturday night, I went to my first 'boy girl party'...haha lol....the usual college party stuff...smoke, beer, cake, and almost fights....ok so i have NO idea if that's 'usual' cuz I've never been to one...just seen 'em on TV!!! LOL


Sunday, went to the Capilla for the last time.

After church, I went out to eat some silpancho at this nice restaurant before the futbol game. The game was Aurora (Cbba team) vs. WILSTERMAN (Cbba team as well)!! I thought it would be a lot more full since it's Cbba vs. Cbba. but it wasn't that full! Anyway, I was for WILSTERMAN! and the 7 other volunteers that I met up with there were for Aurora. Shame on them!!!! Because one of the doctors (the Gastroenterologist at that!!:)) was the medic for WILSTERMAN!!!! how dare they!!! haha lol Plus, I bought this amazing cheap jersey shirt and cool joker hat...

ok so Aurora won...but still WILSTERMAN IS THE BEST!!!!!! :):):):)

but anyway no one cares!!! haha







yeah so afterward i was able to show the volunteers what ever was left of sunday night...as most of the city is dead at that time....so we went to Brazilian coffee and had their last 5 coxhinhas!!! YUM!

Then, we called don mauel (the HOH trufi driver) and he picked us up. On our way back to the HOH, we saw this huge fire on one of the mountains. and I asked where it was hoping and praying it wasn't my fav. park.....it was! Parque Tunari was on fire!!!!:(

I wish I had a picture of that fire...it was huge, and we were miles away!


at the same time he told me it was my park....I remembered that I had left my brand new wilsterman hat at the cafe!!!! booo








Anyway, life moved on and I will always remember that hat....:)





Monday morning came and I headed to the hospital (HOH by the way).

After work, a few girls wanted to call home and I went with them to show them a cheaper place...Bs. 4 vs. Bs. .50!!! yeah...

Well, I ended up calling Sarah for an hour and a half, and then spending two hours online.....anyway, I went to a store nearby and then headed out.....well tried to.

As I walked out of the store I saw a trufi and I wanted to grab that one....so I rushed to the corner and FELL!!!! on my knee!

Luckily my groceries didn´t break....yet....then as the second trufi was coming, my bottle of olives fell out of my apparently ripped bag and broke! but I got on the trufi anyway...hehehe...

Then, as I was on the trufi I decided to take a look at my probably scabbed up knee....but instead I ended up seeing a slightly gashing knee. So, I stopped the trufi and waited for another one heading BACk to the hospital! Luckily I wasn't that far. My knee wasn´t hurting hardly at all until i looked at it....then it began to hurt a little more.

Ok, so I get back to the hospital and it was about 4:45pm...the front desk ladies were wondering why the heck I was back and then I told them (while giggling nervously and feeling stupid) I fell. They got worried and sent me to the ER to get me cleaned up. I ended up getting an x-ray on my right knee (which of course showed nothing!) and waited a lot.

Before they told me about any x-ray the doctor on call (traumatologist....aka orthopedic doctor luckily!!:)) put a strip of gauze on it and taped it....then told me to go to the x-ray hahaha i was like what! that´s all!!! haha



Ok, so after he sees my xray, he tells me to lie down on the second bed in the ER room, which from working there and seeing some things, I know that that's where they always do the 'emergency surgeries'. so then i began to worry a little. So, I'm lying there on this previously used and not replaced or cleaned hospital bed thing and looking up at this very peculiar stain on the ceiling which i can only think to be a blood stain. And then, they bring the light fixture over and a bottle of anesthesia! AHHHH this wound is not that bad is it?!??!?!



Yep, so I'm getting anesthesia shots...which was the worst of the pain...and the doctors are trying all they can to distract me from the pain and my thinking ahhhh needles!!!

Yeah so minutes later, they're all poking around and cleaning it out and I can't feel a thing! AWESOME! It felt like they were just poking and proding my knee over my jeans!!! no pain was awesome!!!

Then, the doctor grabbed some paper towel thing with a hole in the middle and they all looked at me smiling....it was strange....then they open this bag thing and he grabs a long piece of thread and i was like 'oh ok stitches!' Yeah totally didn´t ask how many...should have.

I got up, anesthesia still hadn´t worn off.....yay! He said to come back for a check-up (actually he did say something about taking the stitches out then....but that can't be right!) on Wednesday....

So, here I am, a day later with a bandaged up right knee with who knows how many stitches in it and unable to bend my knee!!!

Please pray that I will still be able to enjoy parque tunari (hopefully this weekend instead of sleeping in the rain forest), chapare (rain forest), and have a great two weeks!!!:)

Love,
Emily


p.s. see you SOON!!!!! very SOON!!! JULY 21ST BABY!!!! YEA YEA!!!!!:):):)