t-minus six days until i hope on a plane and leave for india. i'm finishing up this paper that dr. bunker assigned me. it's like a comparative summary in which i evaluate and compare hemoglobin levels between rural and urban/upper and lower class indians as well as their western counterparts. i think that she wants me to use PubMed, but i've been largely successful looking at data from the World Health Organization. but there have been some articles that've been useful.
i've also been doing MILES training, where i've learned spirometry (a process measuring lung capacity and the patient's ability to forcefully exhale that air), how to take blood pressure, a few different physical battery tests. it's been interesting. i definitely appreciate nurses a lot more after the training because taking those measurements is initially difficult at first, and then seems a little tedious at worst.
the 7 day countdown has begun, and i just can't believe i'm almost gone :)
