Quinine Dose For A Child? - Angola Day 11
Sunday, November 29th, 2009 Posted in 2009 Angola, INMED | No Comments »Yesterday I was caring for 3 year old child in Emergency here at the Evangelical Medical Center of Lubango. He suffered from malaria and was in respiratory distress. His hemoglobin fell from 10 to 4 in just a few hours - ...
Why THIS child? - Angola Day 9
Friday, November 27th, 2009 Posted in 2009 Angola, INMED | 1 Comment »Here, amid the heavy rain showers, in the background I can hear wailing from the Gomez family. I am so very shocked and saddened to discover that their son, my young patient with typhoid fever, abruptly died! Yesterday, 4 days ...
What’s Binding You? - Angola Day 8
Thursday, November 26th, 2009 Posted in 2009 Angola, INMED | No Comments »This morning I was part of the chapel service that the Angolas do here each Thursday. Their singing is amazing, and I find is fascinating to see how they have translated some of songs from English into Portuguese. Sozinho, one ...
Feeling Pretty Helpless - Angola Day 7
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 Posted in 2009 Angola, INMED | No Comments »I rolled out about midnight in response to an urgent call from the hospital. The center sits on a escarpment that over looks the city, and it’s from there I shot one of the pics I share with you. Normally ...
To Operate Or Wait? - Angola Day 5
Monday, November 23rd, 2009 Posted in 2009 Angola, INMED | No Comments »Last night I was listening to an African family sing softly as I examined their young relative with severe abdominal pain. He was deeply jaundiced, so hepatitis was my primary diagnosis. But his abdominal tenderness was steadily increasing. Could this ...
Entry Shock - Angola Day 3
Saturday, November 21st, 2009 Posted in 2009 Angola, INMED | No Comments »This morning I cared for an older woman who care from the bush with an enormous cancer of her cervix. But fortunately she was feeling very little pain. All I could do was to explain to her adult sons that ...
How Could I Have Imagined?
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 Posted in INMED | No Comments »I have the sentiment within me that may indeed be living my finest hour... Recognized at the 2009 Passion Awards and just out of the first-ever INMED Shareholders Meeting, I'm enroute tonight to the Evangelica Medical Center of Lubango, Angola, where I'll cover for ...
Endearing Personal Titles
Sunday, November 15th, 2009 Posted in INMED | No Comments »I am this morning just two days away from departing for Angola, and thinking about what's most dear to me; about those personal titles and identities to which I love to ascribe: "Vocés agora såo diferentes, renovados de acordo com ...
An Age Of “i” Everything!
Saturday, November 14th, 2009 Posted in INMED | No Comments »I am inspired by the enthusiasm of hundreds of students and residents I'm meeting today in Louisville. Imagine, energetic young people eager to give away their time and talent on behalf of their most vulnerable global neighbors?!? Theirs is a ...
Friends of Vision
Thursday, November 12th, 2009 Posted in INMED | No Comments »Skylar Rolf and I just arrived in Louisville, Kentucky, for the three day "Global Missions Health Conference." What heartfelt joy I feel to reunite with friends who share my vision, and are serving is some of the neediest communities in Pakistan, ...