Last night, the team had dinner at the Manys' home. Angela pulled out all the stops--two kinds of chili, fresh avocado and all the toppings, Kenyan sodas and chocolate sheet cake with whipped cream for dessert! We went around and had a get-to-know-you session, mainly for the benefit of Heath and Angela who weren't familiar with everyone on the team--but it proved very entertaining with everyone sharing something "true, but unbelievable" about themselves! Lots of great stories were told and connections made. Also loved meeting the Manys' pets which include two dogs and four tortoises!
Today is the first morning that the team set out to shadow physicians up at the hospital. It is also the first day on the job for both Dean and Josh. If you haven't met them, Dean Douglass is a physical therapist and Josh Campbell is an oral surgeon, both CAK dads who came along on the trip to assist Tenwek staff and use their gifts and skills with patients at the hospital. They will be getting settled in each of their areas today while the students get the opportunity to be in the hospital. As I write, I'm anxiously awaiting the stories they will all have when they return this afternoon!
Because more of my free time is during the day, I will be adjusting the timing of writing on the blog so that I am writing during the day, rather than at night. This means you will almost always have a blog entry to read when you wake in the morning (pending good wifi)! Below are a few photos!
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| The Greenhouse is a retreat-style area where most of the team are staying while at Tenwek. The large, round building is a meeting area, beyond that is a dining hall and toward the end of the path are cabin-style bunk rooms. |
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| Tenwek campus, leaving hospital to walk back to the Greenhouse. |
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| There are several boarding schools in and around Tenwek village. These students kept looking at us and waving and laughing. I asked them if I could take their picture and they couldn't strike poses fast enough. Aren't they beautiful? |
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| One of the Manys' four tortoises. Not shy and moved around pretty quickly! |
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| Caroline, Mary Taylor Many, Mamie Douglass, Truman and Zander going through the line for dinner! |
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| In scrubs and ready to start the day! Quotes from everyone at lunch about the day so far: Caroline: I got to observe a laparoscopic appendectomy. It was cool. I liked how the Manys explained everything to us. I didn't love the smell. Brooke: Same as Caroline because we observed together. I really liked walking around and just being able to observe all the surgeries taking place. It was cool. McKinley: I loved being hands-on with the babies! There was a set of triplets and quadruplets. Probably 30 babies total in the maternity ward. I got to feed one of the triplets! It was really hot in there. They keep it hot for the babies. I was sweating. Melissa: I loved watching how exited the students were, they just jumped right in! I loved talking to one of the visiting doctors who happens to be from Indianapolis, which is where I am from. He's been coming here for 28 years. Zander: Very interesting seeing the actual insides of people, very cool. Dr. Many was great to explain everything. I didn't like that the guy kept waking up during the surgery. Kate: Loved how exposed everything is--you can just see everything happening as you're walking around the hospital. A little shocked seeing all the bare-breasted women in the maternity ward. They were using their hands to pump their own milk. Didn't know you could do that. Truman: It was cool. Skin graph machine makes a scary noise. And when it hits the skin it's like, "Eeeghhhhughghhh" (rough translation). When they finished the surgery and the guy was just lying there naked on the table, it wasn't even weird. Dean: There were probably 50 patients lined up outside the clinic when I got there today. The need is so great. I treated a shoulder, neck and back. Solomon is the main PT and he is basically an orthopedic surgeon without doing surgeries. He's been here for 20 years. There are 2-3 other therapists there who basically just do what Solomon tells them to do. (No quote from Josh because we didn't see him at lunch)
That's all for now! Everyone headed back out for afternoon rounds and the team is meeting with Angela during tea this afternoon to hear more about the ministry which coordinates the mud hut outreach. They've scheduled us to help with the first layer of a mud hut tomorrow (Tuesday)! Will write more after we get back from that...
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