habari! its sunday afternoon and this is the first time ive been able to contact for a while. my apologies. kelly and i are well. for the last few weeks i have been working at the clinic mostly, giving injections, mostly for malaria. I saw a patient yesterday that was suffering from a very serious form of malaria that attacks the cerebral spinal fluid and permanently disorients its victim.
so far about 4 cases of tb have been through the clinic this week.
i learned how to screen for hiv yesterday. it is commonly found when tb is present.
i assisted in the birthing of a beautiful baby girl yesterday,it was a complicated pregnancy their nurse, Magan and i were the only ones working, so when the the baby wasntpresenting properly and the m other quite pushing just after the head presented, magan was forced to manually push the baby out externally, and i had to gently pull out the little babe. it was crazy awesome. i hope to be involved in another soon. at least one baby is born in the clinic a week and its hatching season. speaking of chickens, i walked into a friends hut early this morning, only to find a chicken on chair just chillin out. it hopped off the chair and out of the hut, leaving behind an egg freshly laid right on that chair!! haha!
anyways, times going by fast, and kel n i are getting excited to see our stars and stripes, but still enjoying village life. we miss you all very much. love you all. xoxox allison joy felter mccright (chepkoech)
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