29 May - Note Home

Just finished breakfast. Had to start taking malaria medication today.

Keep waking up at 4:30 - so I just get up, do my hair, dress in the dark and go charge the iPad in the lounge.

Doing pretty well. Still a bit anxious about when we start seeing patients. We will do mostly chest films to double check for TB. Just got an email from the navy about the film processing set up and was told thank you very much for doing such a good job. Also got an email from Shaila with an attachment for army field dark room set up.

Still not sure what I really am going to do. Not going off ship to do port side chest films and the other lady for LDS in x-ray is going out one day for school sports but I did not get assigned to leave the ship, so looks like I will stay on the ship while we are in Indonesia.

Will try to keep you posted every morning as the wifi works best in the mess hall then.

Just tell everyone I still get to do bathrooms every morning and dishes and sweep and mop. We have clean each day at 8-9. The vents spit out dust and we just keep sweeping it up.

They watch movies in the department on a 32" flat screen, so I have seen The Vow, bits of Man on a Ledge, 5 min of Battleship. You name it, they have it or can get it.

Have a fun week and tell Maddie,  to enjoy her last few days as a 7vie.

Thanks for all the info e-mails.

Love to all, Caroline