Busy busy busy

There are updates coming… we all went down to South Africa last weekend and stayed at a game preserve where we went on safari, ate fantastic food, sat by the pool and stayed in private little cabanas with outdoor showers and decks overlooking a watering hole. I took about 900 pictures, and I’m busy trying to edit that down to something that won’t bore the hell out of everyone. I’ll post more about the trip once the pics are ready.

The hospital continues to be the hospital. The highlight of today was doing my first ever thoracentesis. Despite a little fear about dropping a lung or stabbing a liver, I managed to drain a liter and a half of nasty bloody fluid out of my patient’s chest. He said the needle didn’t feel nice, but that he felt better afterwards. Then he got up and walked back down the hall to his bed. I’ve been surprised at how the patients here rarely complain about pain or discomfort. I was worried at first that some of that might be a language issue, but even when I ask my intern to ask the patients about their pain in Setswana, very few will admit to it.

It’s almost bedtime here, but I’m going to do a little photo editing before I sleep in hopes of getting those safari pics up later this week…