{"id":18,"date":"2011-02-25T12:58:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T12:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/meghanhofto\/?p=18"},"modified":"2015-05-23T13:31:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T13:31:52","slug":"my-last-day-at-the-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/meghanhofto\/2011\/02\/25\/my-last-day-at-the-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"My last day at the hospital :("},"content":{"rendered":"

\"kapsowar-rounds\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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As I write, I have Oscar Kiproteich the chameleon on my shoulder.\u00a0 The name is fairly typical for Kenyan names.\u00a0 Most Christians have some sort of English first name, usually from the Bible (twins Shadrach and Meshach were in the hospital today visiting their mama).\u00a0 The second name usually refers to the time or occasion of birth.\u00a0 Kiproteich means born at 4pm, Kibet is born 12-1, and many others indicate time of day.\u00a0 Some mean things like \u201cshould have been born yesterday\u201d.\u00a0 Names starting with \u201cK\u201d are for boys; girl names start with \u201cCh\u201d.\u00a0 It\u2019s quite interesting, but I have a hard time remembering the meanings of all the names.<\/p>\n

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In case anyone was interested, I received more comments about my hair today than \u201chabari\u201d.\u00a0 Everyone greeted me with \u201coh your hair, it looks so smart\u201d (or in one case, \u201clovely\u201d and \u201cfly\u201d\u2014still trying to figure that one out).\u00a0 It was rather interesting to walk around the hospital with my hair all braided.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It was also my last day at the hospital (time has just flown by), and I had a good morning on OB, just nothing too exciting.\u00a0 I walked up to the local Children\u2019s Home \u00a0during the middle of the day, which was interesting to see.\u00a0 The kids don\u2019t have much, and there isn\u2019t a lot of money in the local churches to take care of the orphans properly.\u00a0 They\u2019re fairly self-sufficient, growing their own maize and beans and vegetables, but they lack things like flour. \u00a0As a result, the Christmas treat every year is a chapatti and a soda\u2026it makes me realize (yet again) how great I have it back in the US.\u00a0 In the afternoon, we finished off seeing OB clinic patients, including one with rheumatic heart disease (not something we\u2019d see in a pregnant lady back home).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tonight I assisted with a c-section of a lady who had been in labor for over a day.\u00a0 (Probably TMI ahead, skip to the end if you don\u2019t want medical talk).\u00a0 The c-section was held up by the placement of the Foley catheter (goes into the bladder), because we had a really hard time finding her urethra.\u00a0 She had been circumcised; about 80% of the women here are.\u00a0 It\u2019s horrible, as it completely screws up the normal anatomy, makes everything more painful, and makes childbirth much more difficult.\u00a0 Episiotomies are so common here that it\u2019s almost rare to have a delivery without one.\u00a0 Circumcision for girls and boys happens at about age 15-16, and it\u2019s basically an initiation rite into adulthood.\u00a0 Even though it causes a whole lot of problems for the women, it\u2019s still a part of the tradition and culture, and that\u2019s really hard to fight against.\u00a0 I think slowly but surely the strong Christians are trying to make an impact, and change is happening, albeit much more slowly than we would like.\u00a0 Ok, I\u2019ll step off my female circumcision soapbox now<\/p>\n

It has been a good week on OB, but it\u2019s also reinforced that I really want to go into Pediatrics. I still easily like the babies and the kids the best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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