Really No Sacrifice At All – Angola Day 25
Friday, July 18th, 2008 |
Giving medical care in Angola has it’s unique challenges: diseases rarely encountered in the US, very limited medications and equipment, staff who seem to disappear, and precious little in the way of laboratory or X-ray so I often never know ...
Lost Baby Into Loving Arms – Angola Day 18
Monday, July 7th, 2008 |
Four days ago I was summoned to the Kalukembe Hospital, 100 miles outside of the city of Lubango. Now Lubango has paved roads (some places), electricity, (sometimes), and running water (somedays). But in the outback of Kalukembe life has changed ...
The cost of peace – Angola Day 12
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 |
I first worked in Angola during its civil war, and encountered all the injuries and disease of poverty one can possibly imagine: gun shots, land mines, measles, malaria, typhoid fever. What I did not see was HIV disease. While the ...
Brightness in dark places – Angola Day 10
Saturday, June 28th, 2008 |
In the evenings I'm entertaining myself by playing a suite of guitar pieces by Gaspar Sanz. Only one problem: the electricity kept going out. So I lit a candle and continued playing - probably just the same way he did ...
African Adventures – Angola Day 8
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 |
This is my 5th day as the solo doctor, and I'm thankful to find that the so far I'm keeping up. But I've had three patients die only since yesterday - die of disease that would have been easily treatable ...
Meeting Manuel – Angola Day 6
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 |
As I arrived at the Evangelical Med Center of Lubango today I was immediately summoned to the ER to see a child, Miguel, who'd just arrived. On first glance, the four-year old boy was swollen across his face - a ...
Arrival – Angola Day 1
Friday, June 20th, 2008 |
Today I'm in Lubango, Angola. If you look at a map of Africa, Angola is a nation in the southwest corner. I lived here for two years, working at a mission hospital and also doing mobile clinics. During these weeks ...
