29 august
29/8
Sick! Soar throat, pain in ears! Not indications of malaria. Probobly just some shit.. It will be allright.
Been working since 7 am today, and will knock off at 7 pm. Asch. Not nice working hours.. sundays are boring.. Not many patients coming in.. One girl with plausible meningitis, a kid with measles, a man with split lip after bicycle accident and a guy who stepped on a cannula (???) outside the hospital. He will get PEP treatment to minimize the risk of HIV. He was also supposed to get tetanus vaccination (stelkramp) but the man who had the keys to pharmacy was in church, and could according to other staff members not be distubed on a church day. Gaah. So the guy had to go home, and come back the next day to get the shot and the PEP. Nothing is more important than church. Hallelujha!
Oo yes, we have bought a dvd-player! =) we have already had two movie nights! =) Jippiiee!
Watched wall-e and Avatar! =) And we have an AMAZING tv-channel; TSN, The Style Network! I know my sister Sofia would love it aswell.. All day long they only sent project runway, top model, documentaries about strange people, "16 and pregnant", project hair saloon, catwalk etc etc... It is only girly reality shows, and they are all completely, wonderfully brain dead and 100% watchable! Just what you need after a hard day's work! =)
Other intresting things: We have some problems with patients belonging to a religion or cult called Zion. I no nothing about it, more than that they refuse medical care. The police came with a man who was very sick from measles. He had 7 children and the mother was already dead. But he denied medical care 'cause of zion... He was taken here by police and they chained him to the bed, hands and feet. So he is now in chains, receiving medication against his will. He is getting much better and will probobly survive now, which is good.. As the brother said ”I can't afford to take care of his children if he dies!” I don't really know what I think about this... Hehe.. Here, this is what is right to do. At home, it would be up to him wether he wants treatmant or not.. well, it's intresting to see the differences.
We also had some children from the same cult. The parents denied them medical care, so the neighbours had to break in to their house and kidnap them. But at the hospital, the children also refused treatment.. Hmm... What to do, what to do.. The staff in Peadiatrics gave them an ultimatum; no blankets on the beds if they didn't take medication, and trust me, it is cold during nights here. So finally they took the meds.
We had a little boy who came in with his finger cut off.. It was completely off, only hanging in a small piece of skin. The clinical officer put a cannula (about 5 cm long) under the nail of the fingertip and pushed it all the way through the finger.. It was the worst thing I ever seen. I even hate that in movies, when they put things under the fingernails... Ick. This was friday, the boy came back in today and the finger was all black and yellow, so it must be amputated. Poor kid =(. But it is just a finger, it could deffinately been worse.
Me ad Linn are a little annoyed right now. There are a lot of people asking for money. As soon as you get to know someone, and become friends with them, they start asking you for money. I have some people that I want to help, and when they ask it is fine. But absolutely everyone is asking. Some are crying, some are begging.. Some are just commanding ”give me money”.. Sometimes you feel just.. helpless. It is impossible to help everyone, and we really don't wish to make a distance between us and the malawians, but if every one you become friends with start asking you for money.. you just have to make a distance. It is difficult to be friends with someone who is always placing themselves underneath you, like you are some kind of god... aa I don't like that at all. It is just annoying. And we just found out that a kid we helped to pay some school books and school fees allready had been sponsored by our neighbour for those things.. That was really sad, and it is to bad because he also destroys for others. If someone acts like that, than in the end noone will be able to trust anyone, and noone can get their school fees paid. Gaa. Frustrating.
