I’m in charge of Maternity Ward!
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 Posted in Cameroon | No Comments »Dr. Thompson, my supervising American doctor has gone to Banso for a few days (Banso is where there is another Baptist hospital about 3 hours from here) as there is a visiting physician headed there from her medical school. The ...
More photos
Monday, February 4th, 2008 Posted in Cameroon | 1 Comment »Thought I’d add a few more pictures of life in and around Mbingo Hospital. The other day I went to my room briefly in the middle of the day – and was greeted by a herd of cattle passing by ...
Babies Part 2
Friday, February 1st, 2008 Posted in Cameroon | 1 Comment »Here are the promised pictures and some updates on the babies... they're all doing well except for the one we had nicknamed 'Amazing.' Sadly she did not live much past 24 hours old, and the mom is still spiking fevers. ...
Babies!
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 Posted in Cameroon | No Comments »It's almost been 2 weeks since I left Chicago! Time is already going so quickly - especially when there are days like yesterday when I finally got back to my room at 11pm! Babies just don't always come when you'd ...
Mbingo
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 Posted in Cameroon | 4 Comments »I took a tour of the hospital today, and met just about every employee here. When introduced, everyone says “You are welcome” (as in ‘you are welcome to Cameroon,’ though I still feel like they’re responding to someone who just ...
First Impressions
Sunday, January 20th, 2008 Posted in Cameroon | 2 Comments »Airports I’m in Cameroon! Though my flight left Chicago an hour late, we made it to Paris only 20 minutes late, which left me an hour to get to my connecting flight. If you’ve ever been to the Charles de Gaulle ...
Leaving tomorrow!
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 Posted in Cameroon | 3 Comments »The day of departure is almost here, and I still have stuff spread out across the guest room... Mostly I feel ready to go. It will be hard saying goodbye to home and all my friends here. I'll miss ...
Less than one week before departure!
Thursday, January 10th, 2008 Posted in Cameroon | 4 Comments »I'm leaving for Cameroon in 6 days. I've already got one huge suitcase packed full of medical supplies - gloves, masks, sphygmomanometers (blood pressure cuffs, and yes I had to look up the spelling of that), etc. I've gotten all ...