Tim’s Daily Nigerian Times
Feb 25, 2008 – Day 4
We were up early enough this morning to eat and be off to the VVF center just after 8AM. Again another enthusiastic greeting from the patients at the center. We got off to a slow start, blowing dust off the UDS machine and setting up the area/corner of the office where we would be examining the women. We did have some difficulty with the UDS pump and blowing from fuses. After we had abandoned the pump and attempted to set up a system to document the patients, we began to examine the patients…
Despite some more hiccups in the system and some other changes we managed to see approximately 60 VVF patients in about 5 hours…not bad! During that time, we also saw 6 male patients. We booked a full OR day for tomorrow in the first 2 hours of seeing patients.
Lunch provided us with our first taste of pounded yam - the local staple. It is pretty bland, but they put a sauce on it to spice it up. It was served with an unknown meat and we didn’t ask. Everyone is so nice and accommodating, we really feel appreciated.
We returned to the guesthouse for a quick meal (including the last of the yummy chocolate cake), and we were off to the internet café. We were all suffering from a bad case of internet withdrawal and thought we should take care of the tremors prior to operating on anyone tomorrow. We all pitched in and helped Pauletta with her algebra, probably driving down her average. What do you get when you have 5 MDs doing algebra homework? Probably a D+….
We retired to the guesthouse and dropped into bed…. And thought of the first of a regular series…..“Tim’s Lesson of the Day”:
Dogs that look unhappy about your arrival during the day, like to bark all night (and by all night I mean from 9pm until 7am).
Tim “Blogman” Davies
~Catherine deVries
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