a quick visit to my Doctor's Office
Bantayan Island, Philippines: My friend Bill takes his meds for dirty cuts on his legs - 12:41pm
Olympus E-1, Olympus Zuiko 14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 Digital: 1/800s f/6.3 at 14.0mm iso100
I brought my friend Bill from the USA up to Dr. Batayola's office in Bantayan Town the other day, after he was jogging on the beach and had tripped over a rock, carving up his legs & feet in a bloody mess.
I asked Bill how he cleaned it out and he told me he'd just used some alcohol, water and nothing else.
Having went through a scratched mosquito bite that got infected with sand/dirt on the beach last year (my foot then began to turn black, with throbbing toothache type pain) - I told him with a smile "...I'm taking you to my doctor's office - you didn't use Betadine - it may be infected already, and you DO NOT want a dirty cut infected here...boats getting off the Island in this weather are hard to come by in an emergency, if one needs to get treated in a large Cebu City Hospital on the mainland for a seriously infected cut."
I convinced Bill to let me take him, right then & there.
Bill smiled & rode on the back of the motorcycle up to the open air Dr's office, and the good Dr. took care of him, pronto.
Last year after my foot incident, the Dr. told me "...if it were 100 years ago, I'd probably have to take your foot off at the ankle after gangrene begins to set in - and if you waited another day I'd probably have to take your leg off at the knee..."
Bill's taking his antibiotics in the above image; he shouldn't have a problem now.
Thanks for reading today,
PJAMES
Olympus E-1, Olympus Zuiko 14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 Digital: 1/800s f/6.3 at 14.0mm iso100
I brought my friend Bill from the USA up to Dr. Batayola's office in Bantayan Town the other day, after he was jogging on the beach and had tripped over a rock, carving up his legs & feet in a bloody mess.
I asked Bill how he cleaned it out and he told me he'd just used some alcohol, water and nothing else.
Having went through a scratched mosquito bite that got infected with sand/dirt on the beach last year (my foot then began to turn black, with throbbing toothache type pain) - I told him with a smile "...I'm taking you to my doctor's office - you didn't use Betadine - it may be infected already, and you DO NOT want a dirty cut infected here...boats getting off the Island in this weather are hard to come by in an emergency, if one needs to get treated in a large Cebu City Hospital on the mainland for a seriously infected cut."
I convinced Bill to let me take him, right then & there.
Bill smiled & rode on the back of the motorcycle up to the open air Dr's office, and the good Dr. took care of him, pronto.
Last year after my foot incident, the Dr. told me "...if it were 100 years ago, I'd probably have to take your foot off at the ankle after gangrene begins to set in - and if you waited another day I'd probably have to take your leg off at the knee..."
Bill's taking his antibiotics in the above image; he shouldn't have a problem now.
Thanks for reading today,
PJAMES
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