Tonight was #6.
Today was the beginning of another week and the first day for the new rotation of practitioners. They're already doing wonderfully! We even fit one bilateral above-knee amputee patient today with foreshortened prostheses. Foreshortened prostheses are shorter, starter legs that don't have knee joints in them yet so the patient can get their strength and balance before progressing on to higher prostheses with knee joints. The rooster has already welcomed the new guys too.
In Creole lessons this evening I learned a funny (to me at least) phrase. It's "tet poul" which translates to mean literally "chicken head". It refers to the feelings of being lightheaded, tipsy, dizzy, or drunk. I'll never look at someone stumbling out of a bar the same way again.
Oh, and Esther, I know you're reading this so Happy Birthday my friend :)
About Jay Tew, CP
- Hanger Ivan R. Sabel Foundation
- Deschapelles, Haiti
- Jaw Tew is a Hanger Clinic practice manager and recipient of the Hanger Excellence Award for Clinical Leadership. Additionally, Tew was awarded the Louisiana Distinguished Civilian Service Award, the Louisiana National Guard’s highest civilian Medal of Honor for his service to wounded soldiers returning from the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Jay volunteered to serve a three-month term at HAS as lead prosthetist for the Coalition's patient care delivery. He arrived February 22, 2010 and lead the team that fit 350+ amputees with prosthetic limbs and orthotic braces before his rotation ended May 31, 2010. He has since served several other terms as lead prosthetist at the clinic in Haiti.
