After 48 hrs of travel, I arrived safely at Kudjip on Friday evening,
and after 2 days of trying to get my time clock situated, getting unpacked and
getting caught up on what I missed in the past 4 months, I was ready for work.
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Despite being gone for 4 months, many things at Kudjip Nazarene Hospital
remain the same, the faces of staff and patients, my responsibility and the kinds of diseases I would be seeing. I started on our medical ward and cared
for patients with anemia, cervical cancer, diarrhea, pneumonia and other
infections. I then made my way to
the outpatient clinic where a sign and flowers greeted me on my clinic room
door and then many patients followed.
I saw kids with diarrhea, pneumonia and malnutrition. Adults with high blood pressure, arthritis,
malaria, typhoid, headaches, HIV and more. I saw 2 patients with a dislocated shoulder, 4 patients
needed a lumbar puncture on to rule out meningitis, 3 patients needed me to
drain fluid from their abdomen to determine it’s cause, many patients who
helped reacquaint me with ultrasound and 1 lady who was chopped 4 times by her
husband and required lots of suturing and more.
It was a full day with much variety, procedures, lots of laughs and smiles, interactions with my colleagues and more. It is good to be back.
