6/26/14
Another surgery day today! It is much nicer actually being in the surgical department so I can have inside access to all the surgeries and not be turned away if there are too many people. In our morning meeting, Dr. Msigwa (another really good surgeon at the hospital) told us that the woman who had gotten the leg amputation the previous day had died. They didn't know the cause of death yet, though they suspected it may have been sepsis. The surgery had gone well and she was doing well for a while... the woman asked the nurse to get her some soup and by the time she came back the woman was dead. Even though I had only seen her twice, it was really crazy to think she was gone... I had literally just seen her surgery yesterday.
The surgeries started right at 9am and we saw a tonsillectomy, the repairing of a shattered patella, the suturing of the top layer of skin on a man's stomach (he had previously gotten an abdominal surgery and was now stable so they could finish sewing him and up and send him home), a circumcision, and an abdominal hernia surgery. They also brought in the little boy (I'm pretty sure I mentioned him in an earlier post) who had burned his legs and were redressing them. I stayed for part of that procedure and then decided to call it a day as it was late in the afternoon by that point.
I had my last BBQ that night and then we all went to Shooters for the last time. For the past couple days, the power has also been unreliable (it went out during dinner on Wednesday night for 30 min) and it probably went on and off more than 6 times in the 2 hours we were at the bar. "This is Africa", an already very common excuse was used a lot that night.
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