Amelia Wiggins’ Blog

rain

it started raining last night around 10pm…not just a litle rain, a lot of rain, almost like a waterfall from the sky. we lost power around 10:30 and don’t know when it will be back, luckily the hospital runs on generators so we can function here. it hasn’t stop raining yet…so anywhere else in the world rain would be no big deal but here life stops. i was supposed to go on home visits today but the group said they wouldn’t go in the rain so we didn’t go. around the hospital things were dead. all the patients walk for miles to see us so in weather like this no one was venturing out. it was a very quiet day, us docs just hanging out. (i did manage to do a lumbar puncture, a skin biopsy, and suture up a young man that got assulted…but overall it was an uneventful day) one doctor asked about my family so i went through all the brothers and what they do. everyone was really interested in seb and his marimba playing. they want a marimba for the kids at the children’s home (have i mentioned the children’s home? i will) and were asking all sorts of questions that i couldn’t begin to answer. so mom, seb, and grandma…what are some good basic marimba books to get for teaching kids? and do you have any tips for teaching kids who know nothing about music? is it possible to make a marimba? what would be the name of a basic one they could afford? what are some musicians that play the marimba (that you like), one doc wants to get some cds for himself? seb if you have a cd they would love to hear it!! 

so if i haven’t told you the children’s home is next to the hospital and is run by Dr. Fredlunds wife. they keep kids from 0-21 that either have lost their parents or need to be removed from their homes. right now they have 35 kids living there with capacity to take just over 40 i think. could you imagine how wonderful it would be for them to have a marimba!!

i played squash last night!!! it was a lot of fun, thank you everyone for your advice! i played claire first, she has never played either so we were equally matched and i thought we were doing okay. i won and was then paired against cat. she’s played before and pretty much wiped the court with me! claire and i ended up practicing a lot afterward so i think i’m a little better now. i’m not sure if i’ll get to play again since i’m pretty busy the rest of the week but i’m glad i at least got to play once. it is a lot like racquet ball but the ball doesn’t move as fast or bounce as much.

i can’t believe the month is almost over. it’s gone by so fast in some ways and so slow in others. i will miss mseleni a lot and hope i can come back seomday, but i’m also very excited to be back home with dan and reese! i’m going to durban friday afternoon for my saturday afternoon flight, so tomorrow is my last day here in the hospital. there is so much that i never wrote about and so much i want to write about. maybe friday night/saturday or even once i’m home i can write out some of the other crazy things that happened.

well this was a completely random blog and now i’m off to do some laundry and get ready for bible study. have a great day!