Virudunagar, India

Thanjavur
April 2, 2007 - Virudunagar, India
Very quick post today - spent most of the weekend in the hotel room with food poisoning and weird red splotches all over me! However, felt a bit better yesterday so Sarah and I managed to get to the temple which was well worth the visit. It was really really impressive, unbelievable how people could build something like that 1000 years ago!!...
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Post Offices and Achilles Tendons
March 30, 2007 - Virudunagar, India
Been quite busy sorting stuff out for when I go travelling since I got back from the Leprosy Clinic. I decided I needed to ship a box of things back home because my backpack is heavy enough! It was more of an ordeal than I'd anticipated.....first I had to get a box to fill (which in itself is a big task). When I eventually got and filled it, I...
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Madurai & Manamadurai
March 27, 2007 - Virudunagar, India
Hellooo! I spent the weekend in the big temple city of Madurai with all of the other volunteers. On Saturday morning we went to a water park on the outskirts of the city which was quite an experience in itself...to begin with, the women were shooting down the slides fully kitted out in their saris or churidars!!! Not something you see every...
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Circumcision......
March 22, 2007 - Virudunagar, India
Yet again its been a very interesting and busy week, packed with lots of surgeries. Yesterday I watched the op of a prolapsed uterus which apparently is now very unusual to see because people don't tend to have 10 children at home any more! The lady seems fine today. I also got to see an inguinal hernia operation on an older man. The afternoon...
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Four weddings and a funeral...
March 7, 2007 - Virudunagar, India
...one wedding and two surgeries actually! Its been a long busy day... At 5:30am we set off to a nearby village to the wedding of one of the hospital drivers. Who would actually want to get married at that time of day even if you actually knew and loved the man!!!!? Well I'm not sure the bride did, she looked quite miserable for the whole...
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