Eating in an italian restaurant with jazz music in an intimate setting,not quite sure where we were...music food friends and setting and the world around disappears.
Talking with a Phillipino gentleman at breakfast ,he is contracted by a Connecticut company to maintain Ethiopian airline planes-he was talking about his adult kids all fry successful,engineer doctor and nurse,counting his blessings with his kids and how well they've done even though he came from a poor background in the phillipines...he had tears in his eyes...I could only nodd and think of my own kids....
Holding a farmers elbow as straight as possible while we made a half cast for nighttime and watching his face holding back reacting to the obvious pain I was inflicting...all to make his arm better...not one complaint
An older lady with a wrist fracture getting a treatment and as I come closer to observe the student therapist she sees me and gets up and bows her head...greetings like this are common...out of respect,...men greet each other with a hand shake with right hands and shoukdserd come together and touch ...like half a hug...women and men also do a kiss on the cheeks...right left and right again...3 times total
A mother is holding her baby on her back in a slanged shawl while tending to a 5 year old with a hip to foot cast ...lying beside her with his head in her lap waiting in the sun for the clinic to begin
We are headed home with our driver from the university we slow down to allow a man walking on his hands and dragging his contracted flexed legs to cross the street and the Ethiopian Dr
Makes the sign of a cross on himself and mumbles a quick prayer
An eighteen year old comes to the oath clinic for help...his endosarcoma on the forearm has regrown and is the size of a football he shows the Drs and then quickly hides it from view embarrassed
A24 year old women comes to clinic with an enlargement near her pelvis?..another tumor and the Ethiopian Dr explains it would be to hard to remove and has more than likely spread...chemotherapy radiation...not affordable by this family...she covers her face with her head scarf and cries quietly in the room full of patients and chaos
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