The last few days have been mostly work. Yesterday I hung out mostly in the ER. When I arrived, two children from the local orphanage were here. Ages unknown but both less than 2. Severely anemic (Hb ~3), one with malaria and one who had been abused and burned. Both with marasmus. It was an aweful thing to see. one had severe muscle wasting. there were back today for more blood. The one with burns is now febrile and a little dehydrated….sad, sad, sad. Abe with the tracheomalacia has been in and out, had pneumonia, went hypoxic yesterday, almost apnic, who knows if he’ll make it…again sad, sad, sad. But then there are patients who get better, which is always nice. I’ve seen lots of malaria, which is interesting.
Today has been slower. We had the morning off and tried to find the neighborhood market which took way too long because we got lost. And then of course we went looking for clothes and that doesn’t usually start until the afternoon so after an hour and a half of walking mostly unhill, we came home empty handed. Tomorrow morning we leave for our safari to some falls in the northwest part of the country along the Nile. I’m hoping it’s not canoes because I always fall out of them and i don’t want to get eaten by a crocodile or hippo.