Maggots

Since in India, we have found the most charming internet cafe... it has millions of computers, access to Skype, great shopping for gifts and a TV (which plays Indian tv:( but hey! it's tv!). In addition to all these wonderful things, it has a bathroom which is rare in India... but this bathroom is literally the most disgusting places on the earth because we have to take our shoes off when we come into this cafe. So my bare feet have to walk into this nasty gross dirty bathroom where I do NOT dare touch my bottom to the toilet and to my horror... Bridget told me on our way out the door that she thought she saw maggots on the floor! I wanted to vomit and she reassured me that she was joking. NOT FUNNY.

So this morning to continue my new found discovery of maggots, a man came to our medical lady with a big bandage and everyone around us were covering their noses and mouth and staring in horror. Ever the new nurse graduate, I am curious and thinking I'm tough... this won't gross me out. He removes to bandage to reveal a little crew of squirmy maggots crawling in the hole in his ankle. I am itching and getting the chills and gags just thinking about it! I am pretty sure that I will have nightmares tonight about maggots so I will thankfully take two sleep aides so that I will be knocked out into oblivion.

I debated sharing this with you... It's disgusting and most of you non-nurse people will probably be disgusted... but its real! I also learned from Erin, Bridget and Lexi that maggots are actually good for wounds because they eat away the dead skin! whodathunkit. It is still the most disgusting thing I have ever seen in my life.

Pray that I don't have nightmares!

Danielle