{"id":32,"date":"2011-03-10T15:41:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T15:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/asdiswagner\/?p=32"},"modified":"2015-06-05T15:45:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T15:45:38","slug":"last-week-in-nalerigu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/asdiswagner\/2011\/03\/10\/last-week-in-nalerigu\/","title":{"rendered":"Last week in Nalerigu!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our last week here has really flown by fast! It doesn\u2019t really feel like I\u2019ve been here for almost a month but when I look back at all the things that I\u2019ve seen and done it all starts adding up.\u00a0Monday was a holiday because of Ghana\u2019s independence day so I was very glad to have an extra day off from clinic. Of course we still rounded in the hospital as always but it was a nice break none the less. Monday was also the last day that Kim and Jess were here because they left for Accra very early on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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Since there are just three of us left (Rich, Sheila and I) we have been dividing up the hospital for rounds in the morning and so far we have been able to finish everything on time for clinic and\/or procedures. I usually start in peds and then work my way into the adult wards where I find Sheila and Rich and then we all go to the isolation ward and finish rounds there. That is where they have the meningitis patients and the TB (berkla) patients.<\/p>\n

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I am enjoying the independence and confidence that I gain by seeing patients on my own and I feel like I am learning a lot every day.\u00a0Inspired by two of my patients on the ward right now, I am writing my Inmed presentation on malnutrition. These two kids are tough to look at because they are so malnurished. The girl is 3 years old and weighs 5.4 kg and the little boy is 31\/2 and weighs 6.1 kg. I am trying to get them well enough so that they can go back to the nutrition clinic and continue to get fed there, but they are nowhere near ready for that yet.<\/p>\n

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Today, Thursday, Sheila\u00a0and I spent\u00a0finishing up all the things we\u00a0wanted to do in Nalerigu before we left. We\u00a0visited the Happy Child school,\u00a0where kids from 3 years old up to teenagers\u00a0go to school. The kids were on break when we got there which\u00a0was good because they\u00a0went crazy when they saw us coming. Sheila and I had to break free in order to finish our tour of the classrooms. We also went to\u00a0the orphanage here in town.\u00a0Lena and Jaquelyn work there\u00a0every\u00a0afternoon so we\u00a0went with them. There are 18 kids that live\u00a0in a housing compound with one woman cooking\u00a0for them during the day, and\u00a0one caretaker staying with them at night. These kids are starved for attention so they were very excited to play with the jump ropes,\u00a0frisbees, and crayons that we brought for them.<\/p>\n

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Tonight we had dinner with Greg,\u00a0Wendy, their\u00a0kids, Rich,\u00a0Lena and Jaquelyn. We\u00a0gave them all a couple of gifts as well as some of the things that we\u00a0are not taking back with us, like granola bars and candy. We are also leaving a whole bag full of clothes to donate to either the orphanage or\u00a0one of the local churces in town.\u00a0Tomorrow will be\u00a0the last\u00a0day working in the hospital and we will have clinic in the afternoon. We fly to Accra\u00a0from Tamale early morning on Saturday,\u00a0so we leave Nalerigu around 4\u00a0am. Our flight back to the States is on Sunday night so maybe we will have some time to explore\u00a0Accra a little better this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Our last week here has really flown by fast! It doesn\u2019t really feel like I\u2019ve been here for almost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/asdiswagner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/asdiswagner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/asdiswagner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/asdiswagner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/asdiswagner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/asdiswagner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/asdiswagner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/asdiswagner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/asdiswagner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}