To celebrate my 2 month anniversary here I treated myself to TGIF Fridays. Yep, that's our expensive "treat" restaurant. Had a chicken fajita with guacamole. Yum. They have fake margaritas and mojitos. I had a strawberry lemonade and watched "Batman Returns" on the big screen TV. All in all a nice lunch. I started my day by being sent on a house call for a patient that I had seen in clinic. Kharki called and sent me to room E2XX I went to room E2xx, and the poor guy was totally surprised to see me. I called him back and finally got him to tell me it was B 2XX. Got to teach that man the phonetic alphabet. He said B but with a Nepalese accent it sounded like "E." So I called the EMS ambulance instead of ours, because of political reasons and the time. It is all very complicated. The weird thing was that the dispatcher didn't know my location. We live at Camp Hicks but that is not the official name. I don't know the official name. We call it Camp Hicks. The sign says, "Camp Hicks" so I kinda thought that they should know that. But I had to direct them from the Poo pond. There is a system that directs emergency responders but the map is in my office. And I was in my room. Our ambulance crew would of known exactly where to go. Oh well just another day at KAF.
I followed up on my patient and it turns out that he only has one kidney. He didn't know that and he drinks 15 bottles of water a day. He told me that but no one drinks 15 bottles of water a day. Everyone "overestimates" their water intake, so I didn't believe him. Well, he gave himself hyponatremia, aka water poisoning. And he didn't know that he had only one kidney. All righty then. No more water for him.
I have watched two movies on my computer since I've been here. 127 Hours and Casino Jack. Recommend both of them.
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Kharki, in my office, helps me look up hyponatremia |
I have an office phone number. Our internet goes to Germany. Google is in the UAE and our Internet based phone goes through Dallas. So either my search terms come up in German or Arabic. Phone number is 817-567-4420. 1900 to 0700 California time. Just in case. If our internet goes down we are incommunicado Or no communicado. Plus no powerinado. It's a pain the buttinanado...
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