First Day at School - Be careful what you ask for

Lisa and I were talking this morning that sometimes we say "sure would be nice to be back in school again". Well, for Lisa that kind of came true, just not what she had in mind. :) Lesson learned - be careful what you ask for!

I dropped Lisa off for her first day of school / work at Hospital Roosevelt today at 6:30am. She was a little nervous last night and some today but not too bad. More nervous about the unknown, working in spanish and of course not working in a hospital for about 10 years. We found out the other day that her first assignment would be a pediatric rotation for 2 months, followed by internal medicine for 2 months, then OB/GYN and surgery for 1 month each. So last night she started to review how to do a lumbar puncture and other procedures in her Harriet Lane manual.

This morning she called and she will be working in the newborn nursery for the month of february. She will be the intern in charge for the month. Her first night of call will be tonight which may be good as she may get to go home ealier in the day on Saturday than she would be able to on a weekday. She has not been able to speak with any of the attending physicians regarding the process of work, completion of orders, etc as they have been in meetings. She is there with 2 other newbees that do not know anything yet, so hopefully they will get their marching orders soon. When she called she had taken a newborn to xray and they were waiting their turn. For those who know the term --- the scut work begins.

That is about all we know so far, so please continue to pray for her.

Here are a few pictures of our apartment. This first one is the building.

Here are a couple of views from the apartment. In this first one you can kind of see the outline of the volcano Pacaya. Then the other is just a bunch of other high rise apartments.

The kicthen actually has cupboards - that was exciting. We also have 2 closets and a central hot water heater. Wow! In Chichi we only had the kitchen sink and the bathroom sink.

This is the living/dining area and we have a small bedroom as well.

This is the statue of the Pope outside of the apartment on Avenida Las Americas.

Thanks for checking in. Also please be praying for Dr. Tom Hoak who also started his work today in another hospital in the city - Hospital San Juan de Dios.