Tuesday June 10th

Jacob
I'm the son of Mary Hearst Associate Professor at St. Catherine's University, Catherine Spaeth is also a member of St. Catherine's university

Today I worked with Mr. Grutzner in the dental clinic at Kavu Medical Clinic. When I first said that I would go, I thought it would just be like going to a regular dentist's office like what we have in the U.S. I was partially right because almost all the equipment is the same, and it's mostly the same layout. What was different was the patients. People come from all over the place to have their teeth looked at. Our first patient was an older man who had a tooth that had been hurting for three years. In the U.S. if we get a toothache, we can schedule a dentist's appointment and usually get it looked at within the week. It's one thing among thousands of other things that we take for granted. We ended up having to pull two of the man's teeth. We had a total of five patients over the entire day. After that we sat back, relaxed and had some snacks. Of course that's when Dr. Sicoli showed up. Mr. Grutzner apparently always teases Dr. Sicoli about slacking off so he was happy to dish it out and Mr. Grutzner was happy to take it. We hadn't brought all of our supplies with us to Kavu on the first trip so around midday, we headed back and grabbed the rest of the supplies and dropped it off at the clinic. Once we finished that, George, one of the dentists that works at Kavu, asked if we wanted to see his house and we accepted. The house is on Fatima land, and is quite nice. We met his 8 month old son, and some other family. He then invited us to go and pick up his wife from the oil refinery where she is an intern. We couldn't fit everybody in his car so Mr. Grutzman, Claire, Natalia, and Kayla went while Dr. Sicoli, Mrs. Spaeth, and I went back to the school. And now I'm writing this blog before we go pick up our uniforms for when we shadow tomorrow.