Kiev is over 1500 years old, the birthplace of the KyivRus civilization, it is also the home of 17 McDonald's. If you go to the smallest village in the farthest corner of Ukraine you can walk into a tiny shop and purchase a bottle of Coca-Cola and a Snickers. Everyone wears Nikes, Adidas, Levi's and washes their hair with Pantene and Herbal Essence. Mary Kay just opened a huge factory on our side of Kiev and Avon's warehouse stands on the other inside. In other words, Ukraine has fallen victim to globalization.
Probably the only thing that has stayed immune to globalization is Ukrainian medicine. I love Ukrainian culture but there's one thing that hard for me to "deal with" -HEALTH CARE
It's not just the socailized aspect. although yes, long lines and apathetic doctors are annoying. It just that in general they have such a different approach to medicine. Not that it's bad or good, just different. And it's one thing when their applying leeches to your own back, but when they start working on you kid it's another.
Last week our pediatrician diagnosised William with bronchitis and early signs of pneumonia in his left lung. So every day a nurse comes to our house and hooks up a machine that looks like something from a 60's James Bond movie. Two metal discs about the size of a quarter are wired to this machine. The disc are placed on wet rags, the wet rags placed in trash bags, the trash bags are placed on William, then the nurse wraps him up in a scarf. This machine sends electric shocks across William's chest and back. It obviously doesn't hurt, William lays calmly the whole 15 mins. without a complaint. And appartently it's working, his cough is getting better and it looks like we have kept the pneumonia at bay. It's just weird.
God has taught me a lot about trust through Ukrainian medicine. Sometimes He ask me to do things that just seem wierd, but they work! I'm so glad that He has patience with me!
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