February 7th


This morning it was just Tom and I for breakfast. The medical students
decided to go down to the hospital and skip breakfast to start on
preliminary rounds. They wanted to have a chance to have more input
on the patients and if Tom is there it would be harder. Anyway, after
finishing breakfast, I headed down to the hospital because I didn’t want
to miss too much of the preliminary rounds because once Tom goes
back around to see the patients that the medical students have already
reviewed I would miss my favorite part, the diagnosing. I love to hear
the symptoms, see how the patient looks and do my best to try and
figure out what’s going on. Not that I can do a whole lot considering I
have no medical training but I have seen many cases and so I try. I think
I may over voice my opinion, I haven’t really asked, but Laura and Emily
say that they think I have a good thought process for medicine, that I ask
good questions. So that makes me feel good. I went with Tom and Emily
to review the Pediatric and OB wards. That went ok then we moved
onto women’s ward where it was the three of us and Laura was leading
through the patients. We got through women’s and moved onto men’s,
we finished men’s medical side and then I had to head up to the house to
make lunch. I also did some prep work for classes today. After lunch I
headed off to school. School went well, except that I forgot it was the first
Monday of the month and so they have their chapel session and the first
two classes of the day are essentially canceled. I only miss one period
since I don’t start till the second period but I was mildly annoyed
(couldn’t be too upset, I did forget) because I was planning on giving the
SS 2s a test but that had to be put off until tomorrow. The SS 3s and 1s
got their tests today. Other than that classes went fine today, still making
small progress. After classes I headed back up to the house to prepare
dinner. I had offered to do so since they would be in the hospital all day
and teaching isn’t all that stressful. I made a new dish this evening; it was
called Impossible Cheeseburger Pie. It came out real good but the whole
time I was cooking it stressed me out because things were just not going
as they were supposed to. But the end result was good so I’m happy. After
dinner I had Emily and Laura take a stab at cutting my hair. They just used
an electric trimmer so it wasn’t exactly complicated. They did a pretty good
job. Emily did the rough job cutting off most of the hair then Laura did the
fine trimming and such. They had fun doing it interestingly enough. I’m glad
it came out ok but I didn’t care that much, I just wanted the hair gone; it’s too
hot for long hair (not that it was really that long, probably just over an inch).
And that brings me to where I
sit, writing this entry, so I guess that’s all. Have a great evening.

Blessings from Kamakwie
Ryan Brooks