Another week bites the dust

Can't believe we are to the weekend. Where is the time going? Here is some info on the work I am doing. I have been inventorying two containers of "stuff". I think I have mentioned this before. I am done now and actually have a nice supply room with supplies that are needed. I am sure it will be very helpful to the staff. Also been inventorying the med situation. We are out of lots of antibiotics. We will try next week to find some. A list has been made, now to find a supplier, hopefully at a cost we can afford.

We has a total of about 14 surgeries this week. Dr. Ajak is at a conference in Bor Town and won't be back until next Friday, though he showed up today with some of the other doctors from the conference to look at some cases here and to show them the hospital and the compound.

Happy at work

We received a burn patient last Sunday. I have been deriding his burn which is about 25% of his back, up onto his right shoulder. It is tedious work, as we don't even have a scrub brush to get the dead skin and ookie stuff (really it is a medical term) off. Just use cut up cloths and gauze. I sedate him with ketamine and every time I'm done and wake him to get back into the wheelchair he looks at me with wide eyes and says "mama". This just cracks Daniel, my assistant, up. He is coming along, but I think of all the healing he has. It was second and third degree. He went to another hospital first and they gave him penicillin but not much else. he was in terrible pain when he got here. I am so thankful for our running water. it makes it so much easier to keep things clean. We are low on ace wraps so I wash one and hang it to dry to use the next day on him. They get pretty stinky.

Gabriel & Peter - my Dinka teachers

Happy, just before I speak Dinka to her and she runs away screaming!

I have a bunch of friends teaching me Dinka. Today at my lesson, two little girls were walking by and I started saying phrases to them asking their names, saying hello, etc, and they both started screaming and ran away crying. You have never seen Dinka laugh so hard. They said it just frightened them to hear a kawaja (white person) speak dinka. It was hilarious. Well, must be on my way. This is a long blog. I apologize for my ramblings. I appreciate every one's thoughts and prayers. Back atcha
C