Milk: HAPPY EASTER

Easter is a 4 day public holiday here in Uganda…especially when you’re working for a missionary hospital. Finding ourselves with some free time; Julia, Eric, and I went to Lake Bunyonyi, which is a lake enveloping several islands near the Rwanda border, where we met up with some of Julia’s friends. The lake was beautiful and Eric was particularly pleased to have some non-Ugandan food options. Mostly, we lounged around and played games, but we also took some to go trail running and take advantage of the rope swing. There is a group of Belgians who live with us at Kagando and we ran into them there, even though we didn’t know they were headed to the same island as us!

On Sunday, it was awesome because Julia’s friends are all missionaries and we had our own “church” service on the island. It’s pretty awesome that even across the ocean, you can still worship with complete strangers. :)

Anyway, work started back up today. We have a guy with tetanus right now, heavily sedated on Diazepam because he can’t afford to travel the 5 hours to a bigger hospital and get anti-toxin. Third world problems. Actually, on our muttato (public transportation here) ride back from the lake, one of the passengers was someone who was ill and needed to travel 3 hours to get to the nearest hospital. Muttatos are vans that have seats for 14 people, but they always overstuff and there were probably 20 on when she was there. Not really the most comfortable way travel when you’re healthy…much less when you’re sick. That’s really the most distressing part about Ugandan medicine. It’s not that people don’t know what to do…it’s just that technologies to diagnose and medications to treat are scarce.

Anyway, here are some pics from the weekend. I’m going to try to covertly take hospital pics throughout the week so you can all see where I work.