A few more photos for you!
This is the view from the big window of my current accomodation, with the mossie screens taken down and the hatch open!









This is some of the dancing at the CHW classroom opening celebration.









This is me helping do an emergency C-section!









This is the sunset last night after a clearer day than usual.










So since I last updated...
On Thursday night I assisted with the emergency breech C-section, which was a bit hairy (baby's head was stuck) but all ok in the end! A cute baby girl, and some neat skin stitching (if I do say so myself!)
Snakebite kiddie is struggling with kidney failure. Due to her continuing effects of nephrotoxicity and coagulopathy it seems likely that she was bitten by a particularly posionous snake (small-eyed snake), which then combined with her delayed presentation to medical care. I think we are hoping to transfer her to a hospital with dialysis capabilities, but even still she may not survive.
On Friday a 17 year old boy was brought in (by canoe and then carried on a stretcher made of tree branches) after a nasty accident whilst hunting a pig in the bush. A huge chunk of his foot (his whole heel) was cut off by his friend's hunting knife and the wound is now also infected. He has been transferred for a probable below-knee amputation elsewhere.
This weekend I (and Dr Addy I'm staying with) have got colds! So we are feeling a bit rough and relaxing as much as poss. Yesterday all the missionary families came together for a meal for the househelps that some of them have, plus their families. I ate ferns!
Love to all xx