June 2nd, 2018 by pamelaparker

After 2 days, 28 hours in 4 planes (give or take ) and a ten hour time difference I am Kiwoko Uganda. Some things are the same – traffic, crowds, need for internet connectivity and some are very different – first night under a mosquito net (no problem); showers that never have warm water (refreshing); warnings about not drying clothes outside and wearing them without ironing first (charming to think of mango flies laying eggs in my clothes which can then hatch and burrow into my skin). I have had a quick tour of the hospital compound and hope to remember everything and everyone soon – but not today. Medicine here is different in some ways of convenience, and very much more complex in terms of the infectious disease burden and ability to do so much with much less than we have in the states. I look forward to seeing it in action on Monday. For now, I am dealing with jet lag by vegetating and wandering around aimlessly….