Thursday...

I was so pissed off because LsA pushed me to remain in the health center, BTW, we were assigned to a new station, to 2 health centers in two different Barangays.

The 2 places were completely different with the RHU (regional Health Office) that we've been to for the last two weeks. The RHU is complete with X ray, Dental Clkinic, Laboratory, and many more, while the two centers were absolutely smaller and poorer.

Anyway, we had had no too many patients, only 3 or 4 elderly women who wanted to have their Blood Pressure taken, a pregnant girl, who I was very lucky to test my Leopold's Maneuver skill (the palpation of a pregnant woman's tummy to check the position of the baby) and auscultate for the Fetal Heart Tone which proved to be sooo difficult to do, and a kid who had a shot of Anti Hepa B Vaccine.

Friday...

My misfortune yesterday was flipped today.

I was able to join them in a home visit. There were only two people to be visited so we divided ourselves into two...

I was with AxA, KJA, LrA, and RAA.

The patient was really nice. We spent almost two hours talking to her. She told us her autobiography, like she was quite a lesbian in high school (she's two months pregnant BTW) , she had crushes on girls, she didnt love her husband when they got married because he's eleven years older she only married him because of a gossip, she has a cousin in Canada (she let us see the picture and... "hey...cute") who was so ugly when they were young ( i saw the picture too) but now a beauty pageant title holder, and many more... yeah, a dirty old mayor gave her an indecent proposal when she was in Laguna.

After almost two hours of trying to tell her that we're going... which she comfortably ignored, she finally let us go.

We thought of making a quick ocular visit for our dot map... when we were in front, as in 100 meters away but in front, of the General Service Office, 4 men called us to take their Blood Pressures.

What we thought to be four guys turned out to be 50 and more government employees asking for their Blood Pressure Readings.

As we took a person's BP, more and more people queued for their turn.

It was so funny. It reminded me of the interviews I made for a film documentary, where I interviewed people from the City Hall and the Police Station.

They are so ecstatic. They joke around like kids. I really like these people. Overall, it has been such a rewarding achievement to BP those number of people.

PS This will be my last Community Duty. I'll be stationed in a private women's hospital next next week, after the midterm exams.