Day 16: Blood and Blisters

Today, the children at Los Pipitos left at 1:00 p.m., so we had a very abbreviated day at work. We saw 2 patients, one of whom looked to me like she was severely malnourished. At 30 years old, she weighed 79 pounds, and her chest was concave. She complained of a headache and a stomache ache, but we didn't see anything of importance. She said she ate well, and apparently had some sort of seizure disorder for which she takes medication. Ultimately, we decided she was having a migraine. Another patient was suffering from the same ailment that I was experiencing, with a fever and sore throat, for which we gave Tylenol.

We wanted pizza today, so we went to the Monna Lisa (note the spelling) restaurant for lunch, where we indulged ourselves and had salad, bruchetta, and pizza.  It was wonderful! It's a restaurant owned by an Italian and the chef is Italian, so how could we go wrong??? 

Monna Lisa Restaurant

It was SO hot today, we used umbrellas to shield ourselves from the sun. Christine bought an umbrella from the stationery store, but there were no more adult umbrellas, so she bought a "Beauty" umbrella in lime green! 

Christine the Beauty!

Since we had a whole afternoon to ourselves, we decided to go to a salon to treat ourselves to pedicures and waxing. Christine and I settled in for a pedicure while Lily went for the waxing. Being Lily, she was adventurous and wanted waxing in a number of places - 3 hours worth! Christine and I left with minor damage - I had a couple of bleeding toes! Lily came home with blisters from the TOO HOT wax! I guess we don't want to visit the salons again in Nicaragua!

Susan and Christine Getting Pedicures

After our heavy lunch, we decided we didn't need a big dinner, so we met for drinks at Happy Hour at the Hotel Casa San Francisco, where we played a game of Christine's making, sort of a combination of charades and pictionary. Then Christine started working on her creative letter to her husband. We had a great time, and Christine showed off her salsa dancing with Franklin, the bar tender.

Creative Christine

Christine and Franklin Salsa

We left the bar at 8:00 p.m., in time for me to catch up on the blog and
be ready to talk to my husband at 8:30. Tomorrow we'll be meeting Paloma to talk about our proposal for Los Pipitos.