Door of No Return
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 Posted in INMED | No Comments »August 10, 2007 After spending several days back in my hometown of Nalerigu, it was time to leave…again. But not before I ate some catepillars and got attacked by a monkey (ask me to show you the scar!). Probably the pinnacle of ...
Really Long
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 Posted in INMED | No Comments »July 30, 2007 So much has happened, I am afraid that this post will not be able to contain it all. My feelings about Manna continued to make it a hard place for me to be. I ran into some financial troubles ...
The Cape Coast
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 Posted in INMED | No Comments »July 22, 2007 Elmina is a beatiful, bustling fishing town. It also smells a lot like fish, but in a way that you can easily learn to love (some of you will understand my appropriate mention of Mr. Snow here). Our first ...
Lake Bosomtwi
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 Posted in INMED | 1 Comment »July 17, 2007 I woke up early the next morning with the faint light of dawn sifting through a curtained window next to my bunk bed. What I saw when I pulled back the curtain was enough to make me rise ...
The Million Cedi Cab Ride
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 Posted in INMED | No Comments »July 15, 2007 It was an early and melancholy morning when we left the BMC. I had stayed up the night before, doing laundry, packing, and….well, baking banana cake. We had purchased a large amount of bananas for that purpose, but ...
No Bio
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 Posted in INMED | No Comments »July 10, 2007 It is really difficult for me to grasp the idea that I have spent six weeks at Baptist Medical Center. Even more difficult is the reality that I will be leaving it tomorrow morning. I have said a ...
Sa
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 Posted in INMED | No Comments »July 5, 2007 When I had been here for only about a week, I was asking one of the Ghanaian staff at the hospital how to say “How do you say?” in Mampruli. I was understandably having trouble getting an answer ...
Waifu…feels like fish…tastes like chicken
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 Posted in INMED | No Comments »June 25, 2007 It has been a long while since my last post; so long, that I doubt I will be able to contain all that has happened over the past couple of weeks within a post that doesn’t morph into ...
Rainy Season
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 Posted in INMED | No Comments »Thursday, June 7th Tuesdays and Thursdays are procedure/surgery days at BMC. There are also morning and afternoon rounds to visit inpatients. When I found out it was going to be rainy season here during my stay, I was a little bummed ...
En Yuri Leah
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 Posted in INMED | No Comments »Wednesday, June 6th Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays are all clinic days at BMC. I learned that there is a health care system in Ghana, if patients apply for it, so some of the patient’s coming in had forms for the doctors ...