Week 2

AM left on Sunday which leaves the four of us here to hold things down! It was an interesting week! Michael is a gyno and is trying to learn tropical medicine at warp speed! Also, he and his wife Esther cannot speak Creole which adds an interesting dynamic! We had a couple deliveries, and I am practicing being a midwife here so I am always the one at the deliveries! When we do deliveries or have an emergency Michael always goes back to speaking German, so currently I am learning German and Creole!! We had one emergency in which a women came in with half of her lip bit off! Sick me out!! Her husband has two wives and his other wife bit her lip off! We don't know why, but in case anyone needed it here is more proof that multiple wives are not a good idea!!! We also had a man come in who crashed his motorcycle and split is nose in half! Once again, sick me out! These are moments when I question whether or not I enjoy being a nurse!
Plus to start off the week, on Monday we admitted three more malnourished kids. MILK!!! One is a little girl who is 3, and has the beginning of Kwash. She left on Friday though because her mom did not want to stay. The other one is a 5 yo boy who weighs 27lbs and has a huge wound the size of a hamburger on his butt. He has not walked for 8 days. His mom was 9mo pregnant and on Thursday morning she literally popped out the baby. As in I did not even have time to put my gloves on. But Michael already had gloves on so he caught the baby. After delivering the mother said she could no longer stay at the hospital. Even though I told her if they left Jino her son would die. They promised to come back for milk every morning, we have not seen them since. I'm so sad because he will die, and maybe he could have lived. Our last malnourished boy is 12yo and has Down's Syndrome. He weighs 27lbs as well, yes a 12yo weighing 27lbs. He is sooo precious, I want to keep him in my pocket!! But I can't because he tried to hit Esther on the head with corn, so it would be a difficult working condition for her if he was in my pocket!! Thursday we also had a 3mo baby move into the hospital, she weighs 1.75kg. We are giving her formula and she is taking it. By Sat. her weight had increased to 1.85 so that was good. We continue to give Erebendi the milk thru his tube, his swelling has gone down some but he will not drink or eat anything. Come on little man!!
We also admitted two new TB patients! Apparently, word gets out that the MD is back and the flocks are coming. We are trying to fill the hospital up in our first week!!
Good news I killed my first tarantula! It took three rocks a few screams from Ryna but he is dead!! The mice continue to violate us in the bathroom, but I'm getting used to them!!