Green mamba! And work..
Today we found a green mamba in the garden. It had hidden in a big bag of charcole. Our gadener punched it with a broom, and then we (or I... ) caught it in a bowl. It was so beautiful, shining green! Almost neon colour. But it is very dangerous, So we took some photos and measured him (67 cm) and then, we had to kill it. I used the DOOM spray on it and then i cut it's head off... And then we burried it in the garden. I felt a little sorry about him, he was so beautiful... But let's face it.. we can't have deadly snakes in our garden... What if it would bite Spot?? =(
Well, work has been busy this week.. Found a lot of sick children that I had to run up to peads with.. One of them, an 11 year old boy, is struggling with malaria/meningitis/pneumonia.. since thuesday. Still on oxygen. Im worried about him.. And yesterday I heard singing and crying and screaming from Peads. I thought it was him who had died, but it was another girl that came in today.. Also Malaria/meningitis.. She was 10. Adn she showed out to be the nieece of our gardener Wilfred. It was so sad to watch. Around 50 mothers were standing by her bed, mourning her with their own babies on their backs. I wonder what they tell their children.. They stay in this room, some of them for many manny days, even weeks. And a lot of children dies. It must be horrible to be there... Worried about your baby, and all the time babies dying.. well.. The father took her on his back and they tied her to him. When he walked out her legs where moving just as if she had been alive.. I bet she has been sitting on her fathers back so mamny times before, and this time she was dead... I can't imagine the feeling the father must have while carrying her... When I saw that I couldn't help me from crying..
The project is going well! We have gotten new, stronger triage colour papers! And thee carpennters have finally started removing the palm trees outside OPD so that we can start building roof and floor and benches before the rainy season starts.
Hehee yeaah and some fun things;
1) The matron decided that all nurses has to be called by their surname. Due to the fact that noone can pronuonce our names, Link is now Miss Heart breaker (irl: Hatlebrekke) and I am Miss Slamson (irl:svensson). Very nice names!
2) A lady today that was seen by doctor Rhona. Rhona asked for the name of the baby. The translator (a nursing student) asked the lady, and a long kind of angry discussion started. After a few minutes the translator turned to Rhona and said " The mother cannot tell you the name of the b-aby, cause she has fforgotten it"
3) A lady came in because she had went to a witch doctor to get help with abdominal pains. The witch doctor had told her to put a stick in her vagina. The lady did this, and then the stick disappered. so she came to us to see where it was. But we couldnt find it, not even on ultrasound. What we did found though, was that she was pregnant (= the reason for the abdominal pains)
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And time for some photos! =)
When we where in Blantyre, we took a trip to the tea farms by Mulanje! =) I stole some leaves, and I intend to make tea from them... But we will see! =) I dont really know how, but i guess just dry the shit and boil it... right?
Here you can see me all covered in tea! =)
Here you can see us standing with one foot in Malawi and one foot in Mozambique! =) The boarder in in the middle of this road.
Swimming at the lake of stars festival =)
More Lake of Stars...
Me and Link at the festival! shiny happy people! =)
Well, work has been busy this week.. Found a lot of sick children that I had to run up to peads with.. One of them, an 11 year old boy, is struggling with malaria/meningitis/pneumonia.. since thuesday. Still on oxygen. Im worried about him.. And yesterday I heard singing and crying and screaming from Peads. I thought it was him who had died, but it was another girl that came in today.. Also Malaria/meningitis.. She was 10. Adn she showed out to be the nieece of our gardener Wilfred. It was so sad to watch. Around 50 mothers were standing by her bed, mourning her with their own babies on their backs. I wonder what they tell their children.. They stay in this room, some of them for many manny days, even weeks. And a lot of children dies. It must be horrible to be there... Worried about your baby, and all the time babies dying.. well.. The father took her on his back and they tied her to him. When he walked out her legs where moving just as if she had been alive.. I bet she has been sitting on her fathers back so mamny times before, and this time she was dead... I can't imagine the feeling the father must have while carrying her... When I saw that I couldn't help me from crying..
The project is going well! We have gotten new, stronger triage colour papers! And thee carpennters have finally started removing the palm trees outside OPD so that we can start building roof and floor and benches before the rainy season starts.
Hehee yeaah and some fun things;
1) The matron decided that all nurses has to be called by their surname. Due to the fact that noone can pronuonce our names, Link is now Miss Heart breaker (irl: Hatlebrekke) and I am Miss Slamson (irl:svensson). Very nice names!
2) A lady today that was seen by doctor Rhona. Rhona asked for the name of the baby. The translator (a nursing student) asked the lady, and a long kind of angry discussion started. After a few minutes the translator turned to Rhona and said " The mother cannot tell you the name of the b-aby, cause she has fforgotten it"
3) A lady came in because she had went to a witch doctor to get help with abdominal pains. The witch doctor had told her to put a stick in her vagina. The lady did this, and then the stick disappered. so she came to us to see where it was. But we couldnt find it, not even on ultrasound. What we did found though, was that she was pregnant (= the reason for the abdominal pains)
***
And time for some photos! =)
When we where in Blantyre, we took a trip to the tea farms by Mulanje! =) I stole some leaves, and I intend to make tea from them... But we will see! =) I dont really know how, but i guess just dry the shit and boil it... right?
Here you can see me all covered in tea! =)Here you can see us standing with one foot in Malawi and one foot in Mozambique! =) The boarder in in the middle of this road.
Swimming at the lake of stars festival =)
More Lake of Stars...
Me and Link at the festival! shiny happy people! =)
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Postat av: Jenny H
Läskigt att hitta en dödlig orm i trädgården. Förstår inte hur du vågade fånga den, den måste ju ha blivit arg? Tycker inte heller om när man dödar djur, men i det här fallet så klart att det var nödvändigt om man inte kunde skjuta bort den lååååångt bort.
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