Good morning!!!
It's going to be a good day. No death today. But night shift had it hard. An 4 year old asthmatic died from breathing really hard for 18 hours. She was dehydrated & needed to get intubated, the anesthesiologist was unable to get a line for access to intubate. She later died. The grandmother whom brought the baby in tried to commit suicide by banging her head on the ground and attempting to cut her self. She grieved for her grandchild. Bless her heart. She took the babies urine and wiped it all over her body. The child's mother is in the hospital. Staff later had to sedate the grandmother & send her off via ambulance. My prayers are with the family.
4 patient assignment today:)
Nathan mission worker from another organizaton with dengue wants to die in Haiti. Cipro/Tylenol & he misses fligh twice, despite all the doctors warnings that he needs to get back to the US for care and recovery. Nathans another story. He's in la la land.....
I've secretly have a favorite patient, #4. Older man. Reminds me of an grandpa. Very patient & quiet. I finally properly introduced myself to him today. He informed me that I treat him very well. Hes recovering from abdominal surgery. It's day 6 post op for him and he should be able to go home tomorrow. I want him to stay till Saturday. That's when I leave.
Two days to go. Today seem so regular to me. Like I've fallen into the routine of things. I was able to chat it up today in surgery with 2 twin brother general surgeons. Haiti born, but schooled in Europe. I discovered there's an HIV outpatient clinic!! I'll try to go visit it tomorrow, excited. Also spoke with the hospital social worker & psychologist & supposedly I'll get to round on the inpatient HIV unit. Looking forward to it!!
Got a lingering headache & sore throat....very sleepy. Gonna hang out @ the UN only because two of my fav res doctors are coming & they haven't been able to get away from the hospital. It's about 20 of us going to hang out. Picked up 2 kids here at the UN doing mission work & one potentially has malaria? I don't understand how you come to a third world country to do mission work and not getting vaccinated!!!???
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