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”…
Shanksteps #173
I sit against the operating room wall holding a small baby in my lap. He is wrapped in a dirty blue towel that has amniotic fluid and meconium all over it. He had come out of the cesearean section that…
Shanksteps #172
It was Sunday, market day in Koza. I awake with diarrhea at 4AM. I cant sleep after this. Have diarrhea a few more times by 7:30 when I head in to the hospital for morning worship and signout. Sunday means…
