{"id":1138,"date":"2012-06-19T12:20:25","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T12:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2012-06-19T12:20:25","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T12:20:25","slug":"a-trip-to-the-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/2012\/06\/19\/a-trip-to-the-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"A Trip to the Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1141\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1141\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/files\/2012\/06\/DSC_5838.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1141\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/files\/2012\/06\/DSC_5838.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/files\/2012\/06\/DSC_5838.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/files\/2012\/06\/DSC_5838-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joel in language session.  It might not look like work, but man are languages complex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Joel and I went into this weekend pretty exhausted. \u00a0The past few weekends have been jam packed with cultural events and new experiences. \u00a0It is very tiring to be experiencing the unfamiliar and to be corrected constantly on what you say and do. \u00a0I appreciate the correction because it is how we will learn, but it does take an emotional toll. \u00a0Feeling the exhaustion, we realized that we needed to have a relaxing weekend and planned nothing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1142\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1142\" style=\"width: 333px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/files\/2012\/06\/DSC_5840.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1142\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/files\/2012\/06\/DSC_5840.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/files\/2012\/06\/DSC_5840.jpg 333w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/files\/2012\/06\/DSC_5840-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Well our weekend was everything but relaxing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Saturday Tyler fell. \u00a0This happened late in the evening on Saturday. \u00a0We thought he had just popped his arm out of joint, but were not able to get it back in. \u00a0The hospital here doesn&#8217;t come the most highly recommended and especially not in the middle of the night, so we decided to wait it out until the morning. \u00a0That was a night of little to no sleep. \u00a0The next morning we ventured off to the hospital (an experience all of it&#8217;s own). \u00a0We were very thankful for an African friend who came with us and ushered us to the right people in the hospital. \u00a0We discovered that \u00a0Tyler has two small fractures in his arm, which supposedly should heal in 10 days. \u00a0We aren&#8217;t completely confident that the cast was put on correctly and are learning more from the internet about how to take care of a cast than we were told at the hospital. \u00a0<strong>Pray with us that Tyler&#8217;s arm will heal well and that there will be no added\u00a0complications. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I will be honest that I was more homesick Sunday than I have been in a long time. \u00a0Partly we were just already so tired, but then on top of that\u00a0I really missed having&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A doctor that I knew and trusted<\/li>\n<li>People we could call for advice in the middle of the night<\/li>\n<li>The comfort of asking questions in English and knowing I understood the answer completely<\/li>\n<li>Confidence that I was getting good medical advice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1144\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1144\" style=\"width: 333px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/files\/2012\/06\/DSC_5844.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1144\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/files\/2012\/06\/DSC_5844.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/files\/2012\/06\/DSC_5844.jpg 333w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/files\/2012\/06\/DSC_5844-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1144\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our newly casted patient with our homemade sling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With all that being said, we are praising God that the break was small and that we got it in a cast quickly. \u00a0Tyler has been an amazing trooper with everything and besides the first night has rarely complained of pain. \u00a0He hurt his dominate hand, but he has been stubbornly working to learn how to use his other hand and refuses assistance with anything.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1147\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1147\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/files\/2012\/06\/DSC_5849.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1147\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/files\/2012\/06\/DSC_5849.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/files\/2012\/06\/DSC_5849.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/files\/2012\/06\/DSC_5849-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1147\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyler learning to eat right handed (his birthday cereal!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1146\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1146\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/files\/2012\/06\/DSC_5848.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1146\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/files\/2012\/06\/DSC_5848.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/files\/2012\/06\/DSC_5848.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/files\/2012\/06\/DSC_5848-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">When we say &quot;smile&quot; this is usually what we get<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1148\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1148\" style=\"width: 333px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/files\/2012\/06\/DSC_5851.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1148\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/files\/2012\/06\/DSC_5851.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/files\/2012\/06\/DSC_5851.jpg 333w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/files\/2012\/06\/DSC_5851-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1148\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Although he has been quite the sport we hope that he continues to heal because having a cast in the heat is NO FUN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel and I went into this weekend pretty exhausted. \u00a0The past few weekends have been jam packed with cultural events and new experiences. \u00a0It is very tiring to be experiencing the unfamiliar and to be corrected constantly on what you say and do. \u00a0I appreciate the correction because it is how we will learn, but 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