6/15/14
Hoping to see as much action as we did yesterday, a bunch of us got to the hospital by 11am, but it was completely dead. We ended up wandering around town doing some shopping, and then went out to lunch on our way back to the house.
For the rest of the day, I read and lay on the deck... so pretty much did nothing. The newbies came around 6pm and they seem like a nice group.
The only interesting part of my day came when I went on night shift with one other girl. There were supposed to be 2 C-sections, and the nurses said they just had to consult the doctors, but after waiting an hour, we realized this wasn't going to happen. However, when we wandered into surgery there was an emergency surgery starting on a man who had been involved in a road traffic accident and had a huge gash on the top of his right foot. From the X-ray, only a small piece of bone appeared to be chipped from the ankle, but when the man came in and Dr. Ombati unwrapped his foot and began cleaning it, it was clear that most of the tendons had been severed and though no other bones were broken, there was a huge hole in the man's foot when the doctor bent it forward. We only stayed for a short time, but it was an exciting end to a pretty uneventful day.
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