It is Saturday, Christmas Eve, and I was at church. I’m called out in the middle of it to see a patient that was in a moto accident. One of the health center workers was riding at a “slow speed”…
Shanksteps #173
I sit against the operating room wall holding a small baby in my lap. He is wrapped in a dirty blue towel that has amniotic fluid and meconium all over it. He had come out of the cesearean section that…
Shanksteps #172
It was Sunday, market day in Koza. I awake with diarrhea at 4AM. I cant sleep after this. Have diarrhea a few more times by 7:30 when I head in to the hospital for morning worship and signout. Sunday means…
Shanksteps #171
I went to bed last night with my belly all distended. I felt like diarrhea was coming but it wasn’t happening. Finally about 10PM I drifted off after flopping around in bed. The night before there must have been a…