Life in Chad is hard, in particular when you work at a hospital. So once in a while, you kinda have to get away. The first time I was here, I went to Gore, a city in the south. This time, I went to Bere, a little to the northeast of Moundou (where I work). There's a sister hospital there, from the same organization, so they also have volunteers and American doctors (3 of the!) It's a bigger hospital, so more volunteers!
We had a feast at a local woman's house, played lots and lots of games, laughed until tears were running down my face and I could barely breathe, and even got to ride on a donkey! Oh yeah, there was some surgery too. :)
Pictures!!
There was SO MUCH FOOD!!
You put everything in a platter and people eat with their hands, from the same plate.
Me riding the donkey!
Selfie in the back of the pickup on the way home!
We had a feast at a local woman's house, played lots and lots of games, laughed until tears were running down my face and I could barely breathe, and even got to ride on a donkey! Oh yeah, there was some surgery too. :)
Pictures!!
Traditional Chadian Boule
After the pickup stopped...
There was also a little surgery... :) Saturday morning Dr. Roland asked if I wanted to scrub in on a laparatomy with him. Of course!! It turned out to be a bowel resection. The guy had about 2 feet of dead bowel inside, about to rupture. Luckily, it didn't, and we were able to repair it cleanly. He'll do fine! And I got to do my first subcutaneous sutures!!
Dead bowel
I was concentrating on my sutures!
Not bad for a first try, hey?
It was a good weekend. Which I finished by coming back at 10pm, on my own, taking a moto-taxi after dark for over an hour, plus a shared taxi car ride for another 2hrs. Crazy, I know. Kind of exciting. Kinda stupid. I made it though! :)
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