Sunday, April 18, 2010
Sunday, April 18th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »There were no mice in the tub this morning. The pediatric inpatients were doing well today with the exception of one. My two year old boy with a positive malaria smear and clean CSF continues to have fevers on quinine. I ...
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Saturday, April 17th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »The kids in the hospital were doing well this morning. I discharged about four kids including a baby Jill rounded on the past two days. He is a 7 day old boy admitted with multiple yellow pustules all over his ...
Friday, April 16, 2010
Saturday, April 17th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I caught our fourth mouse today, again in the bath tub. This time I walked it farther out into the yard. We rounded in the pediatrics ward at 7:30am. Three patients had died yesterday and over night. Another ...
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Thursday, April 15th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »One story I forgot to share earlier: One morning earlier this week, a knock came from the door while I was scurrying around getting ready to head to the hospital. It was Chinny. Chinny is a thin man with a ...
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »This morning, Jill called me into her room because a second mouse came to visit us. She saw it burrow under the clothes in her suitcase. We dragged her bag onto the front step and I lifted each piece of ...
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »There wre a lot of children to round on this morning. The baby girl in respiratory distress last night was still retracting, but more alert and with clearer lungs than yesterday. The nurses had discontinued the oxygen and she was ...
Sunday, April 11, 2010 - Addendum
Monday, April 12th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »So, I forgot to include the beginning and the end of Sunday. I was eating my morning mango and spoon of peanut butter when Jill stumbled into the back room. She shut the door and a moment later, I heard ...
Monday, April 12, 2010
Monday, April 12th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »We rounded on the peds patients this morning and I discharged two who had improved nicely. A little boy with a typhoid perforation underwent abdominal surgery six days ago and has been slow to regain bowel function. This ...
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Sunday, April 11th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »We slept in this morning and the extra sleep was much needed. We rounded in the pediatric ward at 8am. Dr. Hewitt no longer comes to the peds ward first, but allows us to cover it and he starts with ...
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Sunday, April 11th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »Today is a road tripping day. We rounded in the hospital at 6:30am and saw as many patients as possible before 7:30am to catch an 8:00am van to Paga. On the walk back, a young man was attempting to hoist ...