The End of the Road
A great last few days and only 1 more to go! Saturday we had Rick's regular saturday clinic. Lots of spine patients (TB and Scoliosis), heart problems (mitral/aortic stenosis/regurg), a case of Dermato Fibrosarcoma Protuberans, and one case of Lympho-Epithelial Carcinoma. Lunch consisted of a fried tortilla filled with lentils (11 cents on the street) and soft-serve ice cream from a fancy italian restaurant near the mission...best ice cream in addis. On the walk home we ducked into a "gym" off the main road. The sign for the gym should have been an omen of what was to come (faded, cartoonish, and nearly hidden), and maybe the treacherous staircase/mud slide down the hill was a warning, but the gym consisted of a shipping-container-sized room full of guys, benches, free weights, and an unspeakable stench. Not interested in embarrasing anyone with the size of my muscles, I kept my shirt on but did notice that the weights used for bench pressing consisted of a metal bar