Tuesday, September 27, 2011


Ive been quite busy with classes and my internship at the hospital lately.  Yesterday as i was walking back from the hospital the sky got super dark, and it started pouring and there was thunder and lightning!!  You can imagine i got completely soaked, i literally looked like i just stepped out of the shower!  As im currently typing this up in my room, the sky went dark and thunder started. I said "its going to start raining i know it" and just now it started POURING.  I really think the thunder here is much louder than back home, it feels like the earth is shaking!  Well, its been several weeks since we've had running water for more than an hour per day at a time (if that)....ive gotten used to taking bucket showers every night and washing my dishes with water from a bucket.  The interesting thing however is that when it rains, the water turns back on for a little while...however never longer than an hour or so.  I just went to check if it was back on since its pouring outside, and whatdya know, it is!!! Hoorah!

Anyway,  I have my first midterm exam tomorrow morning, which im a little nervous about since i have no clue what the tests are like here.  Today i went to the hospital and there were a lot of babies in the ward, but not very many older children.  I saw a little girl who was probably only a little over a year old and had huge white spots on her forehead, cheek, and nose.  From a distance i wasn't sure what it was and i first thought they were bandages. As i got closer to her, i saw her arm and back were bandaged up and then realized that she had been severely burned.  This was a really heartbreaking thing to witness.  When i read her charts it said that she had pulled a pot down from the counter when her mom was cooking and whatever was inside spilled on her.  Its so sad how something like that could have been prevented if the mother had been more cautious but now she will have to live with these scars for the rest of her life.  The most common things i have seen since i started out here are jaundice in newborn babies and children who have convulsions and seizures.  In the clinic today one of the doctors let me use the otoscope to look inside this little girl's ear.  She had an ear infection with a lot of fluid insider her ear.  This was really cool and exciting for me to see, however im sure not very cool for her!  This friday i will go in to the maternity ward to speak to some mothers about breastfeeding which i will write my paper on for my independent study project.  I cant think of anything else new so i think thats it for today!

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