Wednesday Evening - Day Four Continued....

Once work was complete, we (Marty, Dave, Julie, Ken, and I) arrived back at the guest house and took a quick walk down the street to see the market place (photo posted pre trip). It was exactly like the photo and we were celebrities as the locals clamored to take pictures with us. The vegetables were beautiful and the scene was complete with wandering goats and cows. It was the dustiest place I had ever been! We walked back to the guest house for a quick bucket bathing session pre-dinner. We were no sooner cleaned up when a group of 'hoping to be patients' arrived at our door seeking a surgical consult. It was rather comical, and as tempting as it was to send them down to Dr. Leber's room as we knew how much he would have loved a house call, Ken proceeded to hold a mini clinic out in the corridor.

Later Wednesday evening, we were hosted for dinner at a Chinese restaurant where we had a combination Chinese, Indian, and sort of Italian tasting meal. We did not get to the restaurant until about 9:00pm, so it was another eat and run back to bed evening, except for a couple folks that walked back down the street to where a wedding was going on to check out the scene.

As with most evenings, our tireless PACU nurses along with Dr. Mukul Parikh were the last to leave the hospital and last to arrive for the meal. We all cannot express our thanks enough to Barb and Bansari for their hard work every day as they attend to the patients in a very chaotic recovery area where multiple family members gather around trying to "help." It is a cultural thing here that entire families accompany their loved ones to the hospital. It is a sight and a lot of sound to behold.

Tomorrow will be here before we know it....