I started work at the clinic today. Because the clinic was just opened after two weeks of holidays - Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, et al - many patients were not confirmed for their appointments and so the day was booked lightly. A good thing for me because a young girl I did a simple extraction on, fainted immediately after I dismissed her from the chair. I caught her as she collapsed and placed her back on the dental chair, head down and feet high up. We monitored her pulse and found it alarmingly low. It took a long time for her to come around even with an oxygen mask on but when she did, some warm tea with lots of sugar seemed to normalize her quickly. Because Magen David - the ambulance/paramedic service is right next to us, three paramedics hanging around came right over with all their rescue gear. I think I needed them at this point more than my patient. Of course, they ignored me and checked out my patient who by this time was doing much better.
The day went much better from that point on and after returning back to the apartment for a short snooze, I went for a short bike ride to check out the new bike path on an old rail line that will eventually wind down to the Bibical Zoo, quite a distance from here.
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| Newly developed bike/walking trail |
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| admired wild grasses on path |
