The clinic day is over but the internet is still working so a few thoughts.
It is going to take a while before we automatically don't think "monkeys" when we hear noises on the roof or in the trees outside our house. After a week or so of absence a group were in full force this morning. The branches were waving and I managed to get a photo of at least one of them. We are looking forward to our trip to Tanjung Puting National Park. The new resident who arrived yesterday will go with us for the three day trip. We will be staying/sleeping on a boat called a klotok and are counting on seeing orangutans, many kinds of monkeys, birds and flowers. I have heard no reports of trouble with leeches which was my original fear about visiting the rain forest.
We will also miss the nightly sounds of our resident Tokay gecko and have fun keeping track of how many times he makes his characteristic call. Supposedly it is always between 3 and 5. It is unique and I really don't mind even during the night.
Let's talk meals: Jim has become the king of soft poached eggs on toast every other morning and we use the frying pan to make toast. That also works for toasted peanut butter sandwiches. Yami makes and leaves us a meal everyday including Saturday. They always include rice, some vegetable mix which is often the better part of the meal, tempe or fried tofu and the some kind of main dish which is put over the rice. Sometimes it is small pieces of chicken with some sauce. I think they often use cloves, and occassionally it is too spicy to eat. We avoid the fish which is served at lunch at the new yellow house which is the entire small fish and not that good. We occasionally eat at the cafe next door and have soto which is a kind of soup: broth, pieces of rice cake, peanut sauce, hard boiled egg, noodles, a few piecesof shredded chicken all for 50 cents. We doctor it with some hot sauce, sweet soy sauce and line. And we really like it. The other choice is chicken sate which is quite similar minus the broth and with pieces of chicken on skewers. That costs $1.00.
Life in the dental clinic continues. Last week we had the major rain that Jim mentioned right in the middle of a difficult root canal. What with the electricity going out at least twice, waiting for the generator to kick in, then the roof leaking between Monica and myself as I held instruments and passed various items, it was quite exciting. She just keeps on working. I should also mention that we are both barefoot and today I practiced turning the suction machine off and on with my big toe. That is what happens when it is on the floor and we both have gloves on which we are keeping as sterile as possible. Still hurts my heart to see the children come in for tooth extractions.
WE are seeing watching lots of old movies and reading lots of books It is DARK here beginning about 6:30 and there is really nothing else to do. It is VERY important to have the computer battery charged basically all the time in case the electricity fails. It is very irritating to reach the last 15 minutes of a movie and have the battery start pinging!
That is all for now....56 patients today for the MD's. Monday is the busiest day.
Love to all, Lauri
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