Thursday, July 2, 2009

My second visit to an Indian hospital...that is right...SECOND

I went to the hospital last week for an extremely painful skin infection that caused all of the sweat glands in my armpit to be clogged with bateria...basically, sweating was like having acid rubbed all over my armpits. The pain from that has since gone although my lymph nodes in my armpit are still inflamed.

TODAY, however, I stubbed my toe and didn't pay much mind to it.... Tweny minutes later I looked down and saw that my toenail was sticking straight up! That is right, VERTCAL. I tried to find a First Aid Kit and only came arcoss some gauze and flourescent masking tape from the classroom next door. As I was tying (very unsuccessfully) to wrap my toe, a load of the Indian men that are servants in the school came up with various bottles of chemicals, telling me, "Aap ka foot ke lie accha hai, Miss!" (This is good for your foot). It was hard to ward them off, and the started pouring and one of the little bastards had rubbing alcohol in his bottle. I wanted to scream, but I am told that is not good for the development of children.

Now, Anna and I are going to the hospital...and I am praying that they don't try to clip my nail....

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