{"id":43,"date":"2008-02-25T16:28:57","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T16:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/crystalnorth\/?p=43"},"modified":"2015-05-18T18:55:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T18:55:56","slug":"kindness-and-generosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/crystalnorth\/2008\/02\/25\/kindness-and-generosity\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindness And Generosity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The kindness and generosity of the people here was shown to us tenfold today.\u00a0 We had been talking to Phillip (the hospital administrator) yesterday, and told him that this was our last week.\u00a0 Well, we are sitting in devotionals this morning and time comes for the announcements. Phillip begins to talk about how this is our last week, and how much they will miss us, etc.\u00a0After he\u2019s done saying what he wants to say, he looks at us and says \u201cnow you will say something to us.\u201d\u00a0 Kind of like, give a speech, and you don\u2019t have the option of saying now.\u00a0 It just made me laugh! So I said a couple sentences\u00a0of thanks.\u00a0 Then he looked to Cam and told him to\u00a0tell everyone how much he appreciated us and\u00a0how he\u2019ll miss us.\u00a0 Get that!\u00a0Cam was told to give a speech, and exactly what to say! Again, hilarious!\u00a0\u00a0Phillip then presents us each with a wooden statue of San Kofa (a bird symbol that means \u201cback to your roots\u201d, roughly), a necklace with the same figure, and a bracelet with the colors of the Ghanian flag on it. We were so shocked! I\u2019m going to miss those devotionals.\u00a0 They have a special place in my heart, especially since it was there that I led my first devotional.<\/p>\n

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The other thing we were asked to do, on the spot, is to recite three Twi words or phrases we had\u00a0learned.\u00a0 Luckily, we both passed the test with flying colors, and the whole room erupted into laughter and applause after each of us finished.\u00a0 Who knew there would be a test at the end of the time? I would have studied harder. \ud83d\ude09\u00a0 As the weeks have gone on, it has become apparent that the people, especially the older women, are not merely greeting us in Twi, but rather are testing our abilities to learn new phrases.\u00a0 It\u2019s hilarious! For example, it will be the middle of the day, we will have greeted any given person a couple of times by then, and had been at the hospital for hours. All of a sudden, out of the blue, they will say \u201cAkwaaba\u201d to us (welcome).\u00a0 Well, the appropriate response is \u201cYeasong\u201d (phonetically spelled, I\u2019m sure), which roughly means \u201creceived.\u201d\u00a0 All they\u2019re doing is seeing if we know what to say! Such sneaky old Ghanian ladies\u2026.\u00a0 It\u2019ll be interesting to see how much I retain.\u00a0 Here\u2019s what I\u2019ve learned:<\/p>\n

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Maa Kye\u2013 Good morning;\u00a0 Maa Ha\u2013Good afternoon;\u00a0 Maa Kyo\u2013Good evening; Me daase\u2013thank you; Wo ho te sen\u2013how are you?;\u00a0 E te sen\u2013how are you?; Me hoye\u2013I am good; Eye\u2013I am good; Debe\u2013no; Akwaaba\u2013welcome; yea song\u2013received.\u00a0I think that\u2019s about it. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m going to miss this place. I\u2019ll miss the peculiarities of the delivery of medical care here (well, SOME of the peculiarities anyway), but moreso I\u2019ll miss the people. Lisa and I have both said to each other that if we get sick and need medical care, we want to be flown to Europe or the States!! And if we need to go to the OR, we want the other person to be present, overseeing everything. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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My man with the huge belly and high potassium is doing much better. Turns out he has massive cardiomegaly, for all of you dying to know.\u00a0 What probably happened is that he was admitted (NOT by me, thank you very much!), begun on diuretics before lab data came back, got the crap diuresed out of him, which produced some electrolyte problems, that we identified and fixed by stopping the diuresis.\u00a0 Electrolyte problems being caused by over-diuresis in the setting of failure to check laboratory data before starting the medication\u2026..imagine that\u2026. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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