It's Tuesday and we have finished the morning clinic and are about to start on the afternoon. This morning, we said goodbye to Jason and Nadi and they are headed back to the US after a couple of nights in Kuching. Jason's fellow resident, Ilana will arrive Sunday and also go with us to Tanging Putting the following weekend to see up-close the orangutans and other primates and birdlife.
Just when we thought we had the ant thing under control with switching beds, the ants, once again, out-foxed us. Last night, I was having trouble getting to sleep -- thought I was feeling something, but then decided it was just paranoid thinking after all. But, after getting up to the bathroom for about the third time around midnight, I had a look with my headlamp and ants were all over my pillow and sheet and mosquito net. So...we spent the next 30 minutes killing as many as possible and checking-over each piece of bedding (several were summarily thrown out), then reversed our heads and managed to sleep the rest of the night fairly well. Today, we are on the hunt for some potent insecticide.
Likely, the most helpful info I have imparted to this group of docs has been my experience with eye problems. Fortunately, I received some good basic teaching early in my career and I have a fair level of confidence with several common eye disorders. It seems that daily we see several folks with some eye problem and they really need to be able to manage many of these. So far, we have seen glaucoma, iritis, episcleritis, punctate keratitis, conjunctival papilloma (we removed it), chalazion, corneal foreign body (for a month), acute hordeolum, allergic conjunctivitis, and likely others.
More later
Jim
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