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Shanksteps #138 It’s vaccination week for women 15-50 all over Cameroon. Audrey is out on supervision and I’m taking care of things at the hospital. It’s a long day and 95 deg (still the cool season). I make rounds on…

#134 Shanksteps I walk into the hospital not quite feeling all-right.  Audrey asks me to stay home, I won’t!  I have had a runny nose and feel achy all over for two days.  I did the malaria test and typhoid…

Like most women here she started labor at home. It was her first. Her husband went away because it is shameful for the nomadic women if their husband hears them cry out in pain during delivery. She had contractions and…

Shanksteps # 132 I knew it was going to be a tough day.   We had just finished a C-section at 2:30AM.  Took a shower and headed to bed.  I drug myself out of bed at 6AM.  I made hot chocolate…