I’m living in Suite 506. I haven't posted a photo of it here yet. I don’t know the address, It's written here somewhere. And obviously, after yesterday, I don’t know where to turn to get back home. I got called back in to the clinic last evening and the short hike of about ½ mile is invigorating. It lets you think. You anticipate what you will find when you get there and how to deal with it.
The nurses here are on call for 24 hours. They answer a radio phone allowing them some flexibility of movement. They answer the radio, ask for a contact phone number and then call the party back on the land line. Then, they will meet the ambulance or the individual (and their family of course) at the medical centre.
At home, we always had the families arrive with “grandpa” or “momma”. It seems the same things happen here...but they take longer to get dressed to get here. Families are a big thing here and everyone likes to show off their kids (some things are the same eh?)
The big difference is how they bundle them up for the winter winds and transport them about. I haven’t seen a baby carrier since I left Winnipeg airport, except in the vehicles. People do use them for transport in their trucks. Otherwise the babies are bundled into a back section of the mothers coat where a hood would normally be attached. They are very secure, look very warm and the mothers hands are free. I don’t think you get those coats online.
There are very few cars about. Trucks and Suv’s mostly. The preferred mode of transport this week has been the snow machines. I don’t know how they buy them, how they get “factory service” or what they cost to get here. I got an email from a buddy at home who said he used Google Map to check out Rankin Inlet. The response from the program was “cannot calculate driving directions”. Use Google Earth instead. It shows the whole layout of the hamlet, the lake in the centre of town, the bay and docks, etc.
The sealift is a big thing here and it’s the only way that large and heavy goods can get here. There are no roads back to the south. To get into town from anywhere you travel by air or sea. Walking around town you realize quickly that most of the housing is prefab. The units are shipped in by water and assembled in the good weather.
Ice breakup here is also a celebration as you can imagine. It happens sometime in mid June. When I was flying in last Wednesday we stopped in Churchill. There, in a display case, was a certificate presented to the mayor for the earliest grain ship ever to dock. It was dated July 11, 2003, That’s almost two weeks after Canada Day.
There are steel shipping containers everywhere. People use them for storage, just like at home. The difference here is that snow covered and iced they are modern monuments to the great explorers of yesteryear.
The nurses here are on call for 24 hours. They answer a radio phone allowing them some flexibility of movement. They answer the radio, ask for a contact phone number and then call the party back on the land line. Then, they will meet the ambulance or the individual (and their family of course) at the medical centre.
At home, we always had the families arrive with “grandpa” or “momma”. It seems the same things happen here...but they take longer to get dressed to get here. Families are a big thing here and everyone likes to show off their kids (some things are the same eh?)
The big difference is how they bundle them up for the winter winds and transport them about. I haven’t seen a baby carrier since I left Winnipeg airport, except in the vehicles. People do use them for transport in their trucks. Otherwise the babies are bundled into a back section of the mothers coat where a hood would normally be attached. They are very secure, look very warm and the mothers hands are free. I don’t think you get those coats online.
There are very few cars about. Trucks and Suv’s mostly. The preferred mode of transport this week has been the snow machines. I don’t know how they buy them, how they get “factory service” or what they cost to get here. I got an email from a buddy at home who said he used Google Map to check out Rankin Inlet. The response from the program was “cannot calculate driving directions”. Use Google Earth instead. It shows the whole layout of the hamlet, the lake in the centre of town, the bay and docks, etc.
The sealift is a big thing here and it’s the only way that large and heavy goods can get here. There are no roads back to the south. To get into town from anywhere you travel by air or sea. Walking around town you realize quickly that most of the housing is prefab. The units are shipped in by water and assembled in the good weather.
Ice breakup here is also a celebration as you can imagine. It happens sometime in mid June. When I was flying in last Wednesday we stopped in Churchill. There, in a display case, was a certificate presented to the mayor for the earliest grain ship ever to dock. It was dated July 11, 2003, That’s almost two weeks after Canada Day.
There are steel shipping containers everywhere. People use them for storage, just like at home. The difference here is that snow covered and iced they are modern monuments to the great explorers of yesteryear.
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