Mint Mischief

Being back in Hyderabad is fantastic. I understand what is being said around me and the plans are mine and not someone else’s. We all got to meet Shobha face-to-face, finally, and anticipate that it’s going to be a great 2 weeks here. The folks at SRH, as usual, delivered the goods today; I will leave it to the team to expound on that. They also were pleased with the rest of the medical equipment we brought over from Medwish.

As Brooke mentioned, we made a trip to the local supermarket. I tried to get things with exotic names/flavors. Mango tic tacs. Clove gum (which I don’t really like in the US but am hoping will be different here). Two bags of chips, the first of which is called Mint Mischief and the second, which Tim will probably mention. Mint Mischief is the early winner, thus far, in my opinion. I will leave it to my companions to reveal what the competition was.

Tomorrow, I hope to check in on my research collaboration at Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences. Also, we will be having Indo-Chinese.

T-5 (T-7 for most everyone else)

Thanks to Dr. Armitage, I have added a couple of extremely relevant (and in one case, timely) links to the Readings section. We have had our final CIT2 prep meeting 2 days ago. We discussed what to bring, more travel precautions, and the agenda as it stands now. The only thing left to do is to see if we can take some surgical supplies to be donated to SRH, courtesy of Medwish International. The butterflies are going full force for this writer. Mostly excitement, but some trepidation. My travel plans within India are about 80% complete. It looks like, in addition to my side trip to Nellore, I may be making a trip to Pune as well, home of the National AIDS Research Institute. Since my friends at YourManInIndia – Rahul, Sandeep, and others – came through for me, I guess they will get this contract also.