Today I started internal medicine rounds at Daniel Carrion, this week I am in the men's ward. It was good and we got to see lots of different things but it is really hard to hear and understand because we all have to wear masks in internal medicine so hearing the doctor's speak spanish is very difficult. Thankfully our psych intern friend Pierra came along with us and I got to ask her lots of questions about the patients. I was really disturbed by one patient in the men's ward today. He kept groaning and grunting like the sound of a cow the whole time like half asleep. When I asked someone what was wrong with him they told me he has prostate cancer, possibly cancer in his kidney, a urinary tract infection and his bones hurt really bad. He is in so much pain and groans like he does because apparently at Carrion they don't have much pain medicine to give out, only at the specialist hospitals, so he is just in a ton of pain. Sad. Unfortunately, starting yesterday I started having a really sore throat and this morning woke up really congested and sick, but hopefully with some rest I will be fully back again soon because I don't want to miss any days, but I also want to be careful not to spread my sickness around at the hospitals. I think I got sick from the HIV shelter because a lot of the kids there are always sniffling and sick, and Elena, our coordinator is sick too.

After Carrion, we went to EsSalud, the insurance hospital and today I was in the pediatric ward where we took balloons around and made them into animals for all the patients (or at least we tried to haha) they loved it! This afternoon we went to the HIV home and just helped the kids with their homework for a couple hours, which was good. They are all so smart and such hard workers! Kids here learn things in school much younger than we did because they graduate high school at like age 16 and go on to the university if they are going to. Most of the med students we follow around at the hospital are younger than us because they go directly from high school to med school, like 18 or so, crazy! We also taught the HIV kids a basic lesson on contamination, with germs, food, dirty water, wounds and such. They are so so sweet. Today has been a rough day because I am feeling pretty awful, but even though I have a cold at least I think I am still the only one who has really not gotten stomach sickness and nausea from like the food and altitude!  Hopefully tomorrow is a better day.