11/18/2011 Translation Experience

On Friday November 18, 2011, I was a volunteer translator for the neurology team at San Jacinto Clinic. The team consisted of five doctors. There were only two patients that needed a translator: one that had daily, painful migraines and another that had an uncontrollable spasm around their eye. The eye spasm condition was particularly interesting because the doctors had to look for solutions that did not involve using Botox which would run the patient a bill of at least $800 per year to paralyze the muscles causing her discomfort. It goes to show that even though these problems are not generally seen as important, they are problems that would really affect people in poverty, reducing quality of life.