amelia earhart
Friday, January 9th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 5 Comments »i flew over the indian ocean today! we have 2 far away clinics that we send doctors to every friday. the plane is a 4 seater, just big enough for me, 2 docs and the pilot named jhraak (pronounced shark ...
bats
Friday, January 9th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »An exciting evening at the Fredlunds…we had a bat terrorize us. Their home is huge, large rooms, with 2 story high ceilings, each wall is mostly made up of windows the rest of the house built of wood. Basically it’s ...
pictures!
Thursday, January 8th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 5 Comments »click on each picture to make them bigger. today i went to work in a town at a mobile clinic about an hour away. it was very fun. i saw my own patients with a translator. most came for HIV medication refills. ...
surgery
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 5 Comments »so i've seen lots of amazing patients and been able to do tons of procedures like draining TB from a man's chest, lumbar punctures, sutures, draining abscess!! i helped with a hip revision surgery today (yay!!) it was uneventful but our suction broke ...
one day down
Monday, January 5th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »hey guys, first let me say, thanks for the comments! they email them to me and i read it and then approve it for others to see, but the internet is really slow so i'm not going to approve them, i do ...
i’m in durban!
Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 6 Comments »hey family and friends, i'm safe and sound in a hotel in durban. tomorrow, shakes (my tour guide who is very nice) and i will continue on to mseleni which is 4 hours from here. we get started at about ...