Warm again
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »So I know that many of you will be surprised considering my previous love of winter and snow, but I have definitely grown to love the dry heat here. In a previous post, I made fun of the locals for ...
Crocodiles
Sunday, January 18th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »Hello everyone! Thank you for your kind words and emails. They pick up my spirits. The satelite went down on the compound and it is very difficult to find time to walk the mile plus to the dial-up internet cafe. ...
TB Clinic
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »I saw several interesting things today. There is one young boy admitted right now who the doctors suspect has polio. Polio was once almost eradicated from Ghana, but Nigeria decided to quit vaccinating because it was thought that ...
Another clinic day
Monday, January 12th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Today was another day of rounding and clinic followed with procedures. I had some interesting cases in clinic. I diagnosed a woman with HIV and admitted a man with cellulitis. He was in a motorbike accident two ...
Second Baptist and more pics!
Sunday, January 11th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »We went to the Second Baptist Church this morning after rounds. It was similar to the other service and also a mixture of Mampruli and English. There was a lady walking around with a stick to poke adults ...
Surgery
Saturday, January 10th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »Today was a little slower. After rounding this morning, I scrubbed into a surgery of an ovarian torsion. The patient had a benign growth of her ovary and the mass that we took out was nearly the size of a ...
Lots and lots of malaria
Friday, January 9th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »Today was another clinic day. I was working with Dr. Faille, who is a career missionary in Nalerigu. He grew up in Nalerigu and went to the states for medical training. His father founded the hospital 50 years ago. Dr. Faille ...
Market
Thursday, January 8th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »We went to the local market this morning after finishing up with our duties at the hospital. There were people selling produce, material, nonperishable foods, cell phones, etc. One man was blasting American music from a speaker at his table. ...
Translating woes
Monday, January 5th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Today was the first day of clinic for Kristin and I. We started off rounding as usual in the hospital. There is one kid with Burkitt's Lymphoma and they will never regain vision of one of their eyes again. We ...
Rounding, church, hiking
Sunday, January 4th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »We started off the day rounding at the hospital. I am feeling somewhat more confident with being thrown into it on my own tomorrow. There weren't a whole lot of changes in the types of patients that we ...