Ashley Shira’s Blog

Day Five

Our second day in the hospital began just like the first, with devotion.  Then Dr. Ablorh told us he wanted to take us over to the wards and introduce us to one of the doctors there.  He assigned us each a patient and asked to review their chart and be prepared to present them later today.  Kim and I were excited because that is a little more what we were expecting to do than working in the lab or pharmacy. When we finished reviewing our charts we went to present to Dr. Ablorh, but he was in a meeting so we went back to the wards to see what was going on.   We got to see our first delivery!! It is quite different than in the U.S. as we expected.  Surprisingly it was much quieter despite no option for an epidural.  It seemed much more natural and less painful (even without the epidural) than what I’ve seen at home. The baby girl was beautiful and if I can make it work I will post a picture of Kim holding her. Now we are waiting for Dr. Ablorh to be available, checking our email, and watching the Obama inauguration frenzy on the television (the first tv we’ve seen since we got here!). We don’t have any big plans for tonight, but we are curious about the new students that are supposed to be arriving tonight!