Journal 10-13-2010
Today I went to the Lab wing of the Hospital. I went to go talk to Dr. Lakshmi (spelling?), the head of the department, but she wasn’t there. Instead I talked to another woman in the office, who was able to arrange for me to test all of the different Laboratory students who were working in the various different labs. This was very helpful, but now I really need to diversify my sample. I need to test healthy men and women who are between the ages of 30 and 50. They should be fairly easy to find in the hospital although they might get annoyed that I am interrupting their work for what appears to be a really silly test.
Students are great test subjects! They all smile and seem really happy to have a distraction from work. After collecting data from the lab students I am done collecting data from the healthy group for the pilot study.
My next step, which I have saved for tomorrow, is to go into the villages around Karigiri and attempt to get agricultural workers to let me poke their feet. This is going to be a much more difficult task. I think that I will need some sort of “in”. I am going to try asking around for an interpreter at the hospital or otherwise just go into the village and wait until I run into someone that speaks English and is willing to help me. We will see what happens!!!!!
For dinner tonight John and I went into VIT and got some egg rolls. They were delicious as usual.
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