Our criteria for finding a doctor for a follow up consultation were pretty random. Mercuur Clinic is a mile from our air bnb, got five stars on a handful of Google Maps ratings and looks modern. And it has as a bonus a lab in case we needed more tests for malarial Layne. Good enough, no?
When we got there the bonus was they speak English and they take Mastercard and Visa but only when the machine works which it didn’t yesterday so I paid US$75 in Suriname dollars…But Layne loved the doctor, a woman closer to our age who was born in the Netherlands of Surinamese parents, and had traveled all over the US including Key West and Nashville…
Rusty has been great company through this crisis but he too has developed hot spots so we’re going to the vet as you read this. Meanwhile back to the patient, the doctor prescribed iron after reading the discharge papers and showed us the location of the government lab where Layne has to go a follow up test on Monday. After that we’ll see what else she needs. Right now she’s doing well getting back to normal, not strong but one step at a time.
Driving Paramaribo. Koud=cold and lekker = delicious.
Want a cab? Check the light pole nearest you. This country does things it’s way.
All is well step by step. Thanks for your good wishes. And here ends today’s tour of Paramaribo, a city you’d never heard of and you now know better than you’d ever intended (us too).
