Short Stories

- The roads are really bad here, full of potholes. Joke: How can you tell if someone is driving drunk in Zambia? He drives straight down the road.
- A nurse came out of surgery and someone had stolen her shoes. So one of the doctors went to help her look. There was a man standing outside next to his bicycle with 3 pairs of shoes tucked under his arms. They yelled at him and he took off running, leaving his bike. So they took his bike to the police station (or shack) to report the shoes stolen. As they were filing the report, the man walked in to report his bike stolen. haha. He got thrown in the cell.
- Ernest, the boy with Down Syndrome, was one of my favorite patients. He is taken care of my his grandmother. No one had ever taught her about Downs. So I spent an hour answering all her questions and teaching her. Her last: "Will he ever speak?"
- I regularly remove flies out of ears.
- There was a child who was so Vitamin A deficient that the outer portions of the eye dissolved, leaving the child blind.
- There are always 2-3 children with cerebral malaria in various stages of comas. There is no electrolyte monitoring or IV infusions. Its pretty much wait and hope they wake up.
- Okay more to come soon