Chad #3 2019 It’s outrageously HOT!!! As I’ve mentioned the AC in the operating room isn’t working. I drip constantly with sweat. Sometimes it drips on the patient I’m operating on, contaminating everything. A fly persistently landed on a…
Chad #2 2019
Chad #2 2019 It’s 92 degrees as I drip from my shower to my bed. The fan is just outside the mosquito net pointed at me. Totally wet, and the fan on me, I don’t feel hot for the…
Chad #1 2019
Chad #1 2019 Hello family and friends, I am doing a volunteer month in Chad and will be writing “shanksteps” emails again. This originally started as our “shanks steps of faith”. As I usually do, I will attempt to send out emails…
Liberia #26- Feb 1
Liberia #26- Feb 1 I am called at midnight to see a patient that feels weak. There is a young man outside. I walk up to him and the people gathered around him. I ask who speaks Engish, and a…