#182 Shanksteps (lack of faith this AM) It’s 4AM and Audrey and I can’t sleep anymore. We have been up every hour or two throughout the night. The time change from Koza, Cameroon to Oregon is enough to be difficult.…
#175 Shanksteps
#175 Shanksteps I first saw her in clinic. Her nomadic, bright colored attire, hid her frame. She said her stomach had been growing. I asked how long, and the response was 10 years. Hernia? Cancer? Baby? (the time frames I…
Shanksteps #174
An older woman sits in front of me in clinic, her husband on the chair beside her. She says that something is coming out below when she walks, and has ever since she had her last baby a few years…
Shanksteps #178
It is Saturday, Christmas Eve, and I was at church. I’m called out in the middle of it to see a patient that was in a moto accident. One of the health center workers was riding at a “slow speed”…