So we have been hearing some complaints that it has been so long since our last post. I guess life got in the way...or we got lazy. In any case we spent the last four days in the southern parts of Tunisia. It was a fabulous trip. We even went through all one thousand of our pictures last night in preperation for today's blog post. Then as it does, life got in the way. Today we had a different, new experiance. Today we became aquanted with the La Marsa Clinique Amen Emergency room.
The ACST's boys JV basketball team unfortunately does not have any schools with which it is able to compete. So as an end of the season "tournament" we have arranged a three game series played on three consecutive Mondays between the JV team and a select team of staff. Today was our second game. Last Monday the staff team played to a decisive victory and I have to say I scored a personal best... 4 points. Today's game, I scored 0, shot 3 air-balls, and took a head to the face... In the last 30 seconds of the game, I set a pick and as the defender pivoted he drove his head into the left side of my mouth. By the time I was able to wash off enough of the blood it was obvious that we were going to have the great honor of testing out the Tunisian medical facilities. I nearly bit a piece of my lip off. It didn't hurt so much, but it didn't look so go either.
The intake/triage process at the clinic left something to be desired and didn't quite instill the confidence that we were hoping for, but they quickly called in a maxilo-facial specialist to stitch me up. His standard of care was nearly on par with what would be expected in a hospital at home, inspired much more confidence, and efficiently put me back together (Although the one or two stitches he spoke of quickly turned into 7). It didn't hurt either that he spoke English.
Off to drink my soup dinner, yum!
The ACST's boys JV basketball team unfortunately does not have any schools with which it is able to compete. So as an end of the season "tournament" we have arranged a three game series played on three consecutive Mondays between the JV team and a select team of staff. Today was our second game. Last Monday the staff team played to a decisive victory and I have to say I scored a personal best... 4 points. Today's game, I scored 0, shot 3 air-balls, and took a head to the face... In the last 30 seconds of the game, I set a pick and as the defender pivoted he drove his head into the left side of my mouth. By the time I was able to wash off enough of the blood it was obvious that we were going to have the great honor of testing out the Tunisian medical facilities. I nearly bit a piece of my lip off. It didn't hurt so much, but it didn't look so go either.
The intake/triage process at the clinic left something to be desired and didn't quite instill the confidence that we were hoping for, but they quickly called in a maxilo-facial specialist to stitch me up. His standard of care was nearly on par with what would be expected in a hospital at home, inspired much more confidence, and efficiently put me back together (Although the one or two stitches he spoke of quickly turned into 7). It didn't hurt either that he spoke English.
Off to drink my soup dinner, yum!
