George starting walking last month, despite bilateral hip dislocations due to severe osteomylitis. He's such a cute kid, he's very bright, and eager to go home, we are just waiting on his wounds to heal fully...
He's making good progress. I took these photos to show the improvement in 2 months - thanks to good nursing care. I've printed these off for the students so they can understand how important our job is...
Saccrum
Left hip
Some of my enrolled nursing students, on their first placement on the ward. Here they are having a bit of fun trying on some reading glasses.
We've got Peter Gill with us, an orthopedic specialist from the UK. Seems we've turned into an orthopedic hospital since he's arrived! The man on the left was hit by a truck, but got off pretty light considering... he's got fractures of both lower legs, right patella, left femur, and left wrist. The photo on the right is Anna with a makeshift gallows traction on a small child with a fractured femur.
Michael came in one day a few months ago while I was on call with burns from boiling water. He's done well with skin grafting and went home today.
It's great having Anna back living with me again. Here we went up Kalene Hill and watched the sunset. Beautiful! (Lots of annoying fly thingees that hang around your eyes too, hence the strange expression in the pic on the left).
A visit to the fields with my friend Mamisa - all the locals were surprised by how handy I proved to be with a hoe! They build these mounds for planting cassava. I only dug one and got a blister! They can make 30 in a morning. So I'm not that handy... won't give up my day job :o)
Mamisa's sister Gren had a baby and named her Rebecca.
It's raining a lot now! Which brings some different vegetation, including giant mushrooms! Yum! Anna thinks they taste like squid - a similar texture.
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Who did the skin grafting?
Was it John?
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