Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Thursday, April 29th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Early this morning, around 4am, Jill woke me because the nurses had come to bring me back to the hospital to see a new admission. I had slept through them knocking on my door and window, but Jill hadn’t. The ...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »We rounded on the inpatients this morning as usual. The child with chronic lung disease was still there with a persistent cough and my infant with abscesses had another small abscess. I discharged the rest. We met at the procedure ...
Monday, April 26, 2010
Monday, April 26th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Today was a long day at the hospital. We rounded on the pediatric inpatients. My little girl with multiple abscesses had another abscess today that needed draining. I talked with Dr. Hewitt about antibiotics and he made some recommendations, but ...
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Sunday, April 25th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »Two stories from yesterday that I forgot to include: While we were at the market, the vaccinators walked through with their vests that said, “Saving children’s lives by vaccination.” Any child they came across they would check for their mark, ...
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Saturday, April 24th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »We rounded on the pediatrics ward this morning and discharged about half of the patients. Many of the discharges had been there for a few days. There were no deaths over night. The boy with sudden loss of consciousness who ...
Friday, April 23, 2010
Saturday, April 24th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »I was on call on Friday, which is why this blog is a little late. We rounded like usual, then when everyone else went to clinic, I stayed in the wards to check in new admissions, help with procedures, and ...
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Saturday, April 24th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Quote from Isaac from yesterday: “I can’t wait to go back to America. The first thing I’m going to do is open all the windows in my house and crank the air conditioning up all the way. Then, I’ll go ...
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Today was a typical clinic day with rounding in the morning, clinic in the late morning, and clinic all afternoon. We finished seeing patients and went to the procedure area to help complete the procedures for the day before going ...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Today was girl's day out. Chinny stopped by early to say "hi" and to pray together again. At the hospital, we rounded on the pediatric patients, isolation patients, and checked the procedure board. A four year old boy has been an ...
Monday, April 19, 2010
Monday, April 19th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »On call last night, I worked in the hospital from 10pm to 1:30am with Isaac and Richard. We admitted two women with late first trimester spontaneous abortions. The first one had a D&C that evening and the second D&C waited ...