Yesterday was really our first "day" at this work, and it was a very successful day all things considered - the 5 onboards from the Bitcoin and Beers event were super high quality individuals with interesting projects, views and opinions.
And we will have more of these types of events - but that is not what this post is about.
So, I created an incident last night, by "crashing" the Pride Day Party - which was not my intention. I walked into a sliding glass door trying to enter a well lit party atmosphere, and I did so with complete confidence. Luckily, I bounced off. Different people attending might have different opinions about who "won", me or the glass.
I think I came out on top, and a lot of that is due to an amazing discovery - a completely competent and well organized medical system in Guatemala.
Of course, getting a bloody face and breaking the furniture is something that's hard to miss, and so I may have inadvertently ended the party a bit early, but we did have an adventure - we learned about the first aid kit, we worked together, got a little taste of how people work under pressure - and the most important! - it all turned out all right in the end.
And in these moments, its important to know - "who you gonna call?"
Spoiler alert - we called @buttcoins.
So our dear @buttcoins drove us to the "centro de salud" in San Pablo or San Pedro or one of the local towns not too far away, and although it had been moved since he left Guatemala, we had the opportunity to find the Health Center just 3 blocks from where he remembered it to be, and I had some fun speaking spanish out the window of the backseat, with my bloody leg up and asking, "Hi there! Do you know where the medical center is?"
I didn't really know what to expect - just that I needed someone with fresh eyes, some tools to pull the glass out of my leg.
As it turns out, simple medical attention like pulling glass out of a laceration and getting 9 stitches - is free in Guatemala! We arrived to a clean, professional, friendly Health Clinic Ecosystem and although there were two people ahead of us, everyone let us right through and they attended me first, quickly and calmly. Clean the wound, pull the glass bits, clean again, apply anesthetics, stitch it up.
All good!
And I should thank @ninaeatshere for all the pictures in this blog - keep an eye on her blog for all the exciting pictures that I didn't choose - if you like this type of "injury post", you might like what she comes up with. As for me, I generally would not make a post about such a "slip up", except that I am at a HIVE event and if I don't - someone will 😅
So here is my version - and everything turned out alright. We are still here, we are okay, and we did solid sociology last night. I'm feeling better this morning and taking the antibiotics they gave me (for free!) at the medical center last night. A little chagrinned, but okay. The bruise on my leg is probably bigger than the one on my ego.
So, as Morpheus says - "We are still here", and everyone cheers; go ahead and give us a cheer and a comment in the post, we are putting it all on the line for HIVE, outside of our comfort zone but still - safe, cared for, among friends.
One of the things someone might think - but if I go to Guatemala, what if something happens? I can now say for sure that IF anything should happen, it will get taken care of. Including, as it turns out, medical emergencies such as walking into a sliding glass door.