Weekend

On Friday evening I went to the local youth group, where singing and Bible study was interspersed with gheckos falling from the ceiling (splat!) and a kitten of unknown origin playing with said gheckos!
I had a lovely chilled out day yesterday (Saturday) including plenty of reading, Bible study, getting up to date with my journal, eating avocado on fresh bread and baking a vanilla cake! There was some excitement on discovery of a snake on the tree outside of our house (a small non-poisonous one), so that is the 2nd snake I have seen this week! One of the kids then found a big snake skin. In the evening Addy and I had the kids round so their parents could have an evening to themselves. We had dinner and played chinese checkers (I had forgotten what a great game that is!). When they left I had a nice skype chat with one of my sisters.
Today began with Church, then a massive downpour of rain! Absolutely chucked it down, which people will be thrilled with. The river is really swollen again. This is what happens when people pray for rain!! Addy and I were just having our lunch when Dr Dan (the doc on call this weekend) rang to say that a lady had just come in the ambulance from Kiunga hospital (where there are currently no doctors) with a prolapsed umbilical cord and the baby consequently in distress. So off we went to the hospital for an emergency C-section, where I was acting anaesthetist (!). Despite a very swift procedure to get baby out, the baby boy couldn't be resuscitated and died. It is particularly sad because the lady and her husband have been married for over 10years and this was to be their first child. It is hard to know that a different outcome would have been likely in a different setting/situation.