{"id":1,"date":"2011-02-01T12:19:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T12:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/meghanhofto\/?p=1"},"modified":"2015-06-06T18:17:41","modified_gmt":"2015-06-06T18:17:41","slug":"a-little-taste-of-acting-like-a-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/meghanhofto\/2011\/02\/01\/a-little-taste-of-acting-like-a-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Taste Of Acting Like A Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"maternity-ward\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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I’ve been at Kapsowar Hospital for two weeks already. We leave early tomorrow morning for our Pokot trip. \u00a0It\u2019s quite exciting\u2014one of the other med students and I will be doing all the prenatal visits for the moms there, as well as any other OB\/GYN related issues, since the resident gynecologist here isn\u2019t going. \u00a0It\u2019ll be a little taste of acting like a doctor.\u00a0Prayers for the success of our trip would be wonderful\u2014we hope to reach many of the people there, both medically and spiritually. \u00a0At least half the point of the trip (if not more) is to encourage the very small church in the area, and we hope to reach at least some of the community with the message of the Gospel. \u00a0I\u2019m sure it\u2019ll be a very different experience as a Christian in a very un-Christian area.<\/p>\n

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Today was a fairly laidback day. \u00a0Fridays usually are\u2014no one wants to be in the hospital over the weekend. \u00a0My sick Pokot baby is still very sick, but he\u2019s still alive, which is more than we expected a few days ago. \u00a0For those who know antibiotics, we started him on chloramphenicol today which is pretty much last resort since it has some pretty serious side effects (but it\u2019s a great drug). \u00a0We sent several kids home, including the baby with heart failure from the beginning of the week and a child with malaria. \u00a0I had my first real experience on pediatric side of a c-section today; we had an emergency c-section since baby\u2019s heart rate was not going well during labor, and I was one of the people resuscitating him. \u00a0He did fabulously, especially for coming out fairly limp and lifeless. \u00a0That was about the most excitement we had over the course of the day; everything else was pretty quiet. \u00a0I did see my first chameleon; that was fun. \u00a0For some reason Kenyans are terrified of them, so I heard the shrieks of the kids before I saw the tiny thing (maybe an inch long). \u00a0After work, we had a great walk a little ways toward the valley for the beautiful views and the exercise. \u00a0It still amazes me how excited the kids get when they see us, yelling out mzungu over and over. \u00a0It\u2019s really cute when they tentatively come down to shake our hands, as though we\u2019re a completely alien species. \u00a0Living in Kapsowar, where there are white people all the time, you\u2019d think they\u2019d get over the amazement.<\/p>\n

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I hope everyone back home is doing well. \u00a0Again, any prayers for the trip would be much appreciated. \u00a0I\u2019m told it\u2019s a very different area down in the valley, and the church down there is doing its best to stay alive and spread the Word. \u00a0Plus, the people have to walk for at least a day, if not more, to see a physician, so there is a lot of medical need as well. \u00a0I\u2019ll be sure to share all about it when we get back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  I’ve been at Kapsowar Hospital for two weeks already. We leave early tomorrow morning for our Pokot trip. \u00a0It\u2019s […]<\/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-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/meghanhofto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/meghanhofto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/meghanhofto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/meghanhofto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/meghanhofto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/meghanhofto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/meghanhofto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/meghanhofto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/meghanhofto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}