* Please excuse the lack of photos. Internet is so spotty here. I'll have to add them when I have a better connection*
This morning a mouse came out of Michael's sink faucet and bit him while he tried to release it outside. As odd as that was it got me thinking about our faucet, so I checked it out, and there was HAIR COMING OUT OF OUR FAUCETS. Like tufts of mouse hair caught on the inside of the aerator. I pretty much almost threw up. That means that there are DEAD MICE IN THE WATER WHERE I WASHED MY FACE, BRUSHED MY TEETH, AND CLEANED MY CLOTHES. It was disgusting we had been living with that all week and never even noticed. We let the head professor know and he had the faucets "dusted" but I still can't get the image of mice hair coming out of the faucet out of my head.
Today we were stationed in the surgery ward. It was okay but I felt the case load was a lot less than Med and so there was a lot of standing around. Mostly it was wound cleaning and suture rechecks and fluids for cows that had surgery recently. They schedule most of their cutting for the afternoon, so we didn't see anything too exciting.
The afternoon lab today was on pathology. Namakkal is the second largest chicken town in India, so if there is an outbreak in disease, it is important to identify it quickly and do the best to stop transmission, and keep production high. We had a short talk on common poultry diseases in India and then got to observe necropsy done on several chickens. In this particular case, the chickens had died due to heat stroke. To help combat, the farmer was educated in management protocols in order to keep the chicken more comfortable and lose less to heat. The internet went out so we were unable to work on much and I attempted to write some SOAPs.
-7/29/15
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