{"id":15,"date":"2008-02-02T16:09:36","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T16:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/crystalnorth\/?p=15"},"modified":"2015-05-18T18:50:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T18:50:23","slug":"more-catch-up-feb-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/crystalnorth\/2008\/02\/02\/more-catch-up-feb-2\/","title":{"rendered":"More Catch-Up: Feb 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/crystalnorth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2008\/02\/ankaase_methodist_hospital_ghana_lake_boat-e1431965557235.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18\" src=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/crystalnorth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2008\/02\/ankaase_methodist_hospital_ghana_lake_boat-e1431965557235.jpg\" alt=\"ankaase_methodist_hospital_ghana_lake_boat\" width=\"530\" height=\"398\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And the adventure continues.\u00a0 We were up until like 3am last night, even after taking anti-histamines, because of the jet lag. It\u2019s 8 hours ahead of Seattle time here, and apparently that really makes a difference. \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 There are two different bedrooms in this place, and Lisa and I decided to sleep in the same room last night. Come on, we got here in the dead of night last night, have no idea where we are or what we\u2019re surrounded by, and have all sorts of new noises to contend with\u2026every last one of you would have done the same. \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 So, we\u2019re laying there, at 2am, and all of a sudden we hear this pounding that sounds like it\u2019s coming from the roof. We both try to ignore it and keep talking, but the pounding continues. It happens every maybe 45 seconds or so, and is really starting to freak us out. We\u2019re trying to be logical about it, reminding ourselves we\u2019re in a very safe place, that Cam and Anne have lived here for 10 years with no problems, etc etc etc. None of it works.\u00a0 So then we begin to pray, being the good Christian girls that we are ;).\u00a0 That doesn\u2019t really do much for us either. Then we begin reciting all the things we\u2019re thankful for in order to distract ourselves. Yeah, nothing. The pounding continues, and we\u2019re both about to jump out of our skins. The only thing I can think to do is run screaming to Cam and Anne\u2019s, which doesn\u2019t seem appropriate on the first night we met them! Finally, Lisa has the idea to turn the light on and figure out who is responsible for trying to kill us (which is what we are convinced is what\u2019s going on). We turn the light on, and almost simultaneously I see that the fan in our room is periodically causing the door of the armoir in our room to bang against the frame. Oh sweet Jesus, praise the Lord!!!!! We felt pretty stupid, but the relief was amazing. Turns out that we were not about to be killed on our first night in Africa. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We took a walk into Ankaase in the afternoon, and got mobbed by adorable African children. We don\u2019t know any Twi yet, so we can\u2019t talk to them at all, but they\u2019re so cute. They all want their pictures taken, and are absolutely thrilled by seeing themselves on our cameras. The main road through Ankaase is paved, roughly so, but the rest of everything is dirt.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t really walk around the town at all, we figure we\u2019ll get a chance to do that eventually. We did find the hospital, and went in and walked around. It\u2019s a totally open air building, with about 4-5 rooms where multiple patients are kept.\u00a0 The \u2018isolation\u2019 rooms are just a little separate from the rest of the rooms, and have mulitple patients in them too! From what I could tell, the rooms were \u2018isolation\u2019 in name only. Excellent\u2026.TB exposure, here I come! Words can\u2019t describe the town or the hospital, so I will just post pictures when I get a chance.\u00a0 They call the ER \u2018casualty,\u2019 which I find quite ironic. They call the OR the \u2018theatre,\u2019 and there is just one.\u00a0 They have some rudimentary laboratory capabilities, and they can do plain film x-rays.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By the time we got back from seeing the village, we were dripping in sweat and exhausted. No wonder everyone just sits around here. You can\u2019t really do much else in this heat.\u00a0 In the morning, it\u2019s cool enough that it\u2019s a nice touch to have the water heater. Even then, though, by the time I\u2019m all dressed and ready to go, I\u2019ve already begun to sweat.\u00a0 Gotta love the tropics!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Beginning to wonder if I have it in me to really move to another country like Cam and Anne have done. Definitely not a move I would make single, but who knows. Maybe it\u2019s in the cards. Maybe I\u2019m just excited to finally be in Africa. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; And the adventure continues.\u00a0 We were up until like 3am last night, even after taking anti-histamines, because of the [&hellip;]<\/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-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/crystalnorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/crystalnorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/crystalnorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/crystalnorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/crystalnorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/crystalnorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/crystalnorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/crystalnorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/crystalnorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}