Saturday?

What did I do on Saturday? Well, on Friday night Dr. Troy Lund informed me in front of his team that the pathologists at Mulago Hospital don't report for work on Saturday, but, if I really, really wanted to, his team might let me go to the village with them. He talked it up like it was a real honor,so....
We were up at dawn to get ready and to find a taxi to take us to Dr. Angella's apartment in the Ntinda neighborhood of Kampala. Angella's apartment is very nice but it is also the Supply Warehouse for Medicine for Sick Children











We were met by our transport team and Dr. Angella




















We stopped at the grocery store for the sort of essentials that you might need at a rural African orphanage.









We drove for what seemed forever and stopped only long enough to buy Road Food.









We drove more and, finally stopped at a village so I could use the bathroom.


















Thank you to everyone at Balance Fitness who has helped me to develop the kind of core musculature required to utilize the toilet facilities of rural Uganda.
We also picked up Eva and her friend Sistenda.









Eva is five years old. She was born with an imperforate anus/ano-vaginal fistula. She did not have a bowel movement for the first year of her life. Margaret and Dr. Troy Lund were contacted by one of her village leaders who found them on the internet. Dr. Troy brought her to Mulago Hospital for a colostomy and Margaret and Dr. Angella taught the village women how to care for her. She will need another surgery but Dr. Troy will need to raise the money first. I did mention to Dr. Angella that it looks like Eva will need antibiotics for what looks like impetigo (staphlococcus cellulitis) on her face.









Then we spent the next seven hours weighing, measuring, documenting, listening to children singing, singing ourselves, giving away dresses made by an NYU graduate student, blowing up and giving away balloons, giving away candy, giving away cookies, giving away crayons and coloring pages, giving medical kits, mosquito nets, hydration supplies, and medicines to village orphanage Mommies, educating village orphage Mommies, quizzing village orphanage mommies.
































































I diagnosed a case of scabies which I suspected that Dr. Troy Lund had planted in a remote village as a quiz for me.


















We were assisted by Joseph, who works for Dr. Troy.









We left the village at sunset.










And as complete darkness fell on a lonely rural Ugandan road, the brakes on the van started to fail. But that will require another blog.

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