no water
Thursday, January 29th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »the down pour has stopped...but we woke up this morning with no water! the water is pumped up from the lake and when we lost electricity we lost the water. what little was left in the pipes kept us going yesterday ...
rain
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »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 ...
never a dull moment
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »this past weekend we went camping at Bhanganek beach, it was beautiful. about 2 hours away...1 hour is through the countryside so we were 4 wheel driving it again. i love weekends here cause the beach is so close and ...
Mduku
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 6 Comments »for the last 3 thursdays i have gone to a clinic in the town of mduku. it's about an hour away. this has become my favorite day of the week. for starters we get to go somewhere in a car ...
Zulu medicine
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »a standard part of every history i take is the question "have you had zulu medicine?' if the patient answers yes you can bet they are very sick and are about to get even worse. i've seen many children come ...
mozambique
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »i took sebastians advice and played hard this weekend! me and 8 other docs made a mad dash to the border at 4pm friday afternoon. i say a mad dash because the border closes at 5pm and it's at least ...
patients
Thursday, January 15th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 6 Comments »everywhere in the world patients are funny. i was not expecting to talk with a women today about her obesity...she wanted pills to supress her appetite. for a second i thought i'd accidently hopped a plane back home. obesity...in africa, huh. ...
random pics
Thursday, January 15th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »a market where you can buy fresh fruit and souvenirs (this is not in mseleni we just stopped over the weekend to buy fresh mangos...yummy!) the fredlund house cat, me, polly on the indian ocean!
rhinos and zebras and monkeys oh my!
Thursday, January 15th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »last weekend i went to a game park with Cat and Polly. Cat is a doctor from the UK that is working here for a few months and Polly is the wife of a doctor that had been working here for ...
pictures and a quick note
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »is this a field...nope it's our landing strip!! scary! the plane...do you know how to fly it dad? the cockpit, i didn't get to sit in the front but it was still an exciting ride! i have a tons more pictures of various animals i've ...