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Day 7 makes a week in this place. A new place, new people, new language, new objectives, new schedule, new struggles, new glories, and I believe its also the start of a great journey. Today was quite busy. My day ended at 8pm. No hustles, just the same day’s routine, learnt a few more things […]
Day 6 went well, its Sunday, short ward round and was in my room by 1pm. The first “me” time I’ve had all 6 days. Wore lipstick (most importantly), Went to the town. Its less crowded, and I loved it. Did some shopping. Took an old taxi back to the hospital campus. Gave myself theee […]
My feet are very oedematous. They can’t fit in a picture. I’d have taken a picture…. .. Yesterday was my second night call duty Damn! It was theee duty. Friday 8:30am to Sunday 8:30am. Then a new work day till 1pm sunday. I’m typing this on Sunday, I.e I almost failed to breathe yesterday. I […]
Its Day 4 without matooke in my system, how am I still alive? There’s no matooke in this part of the country. There’s no milk either….we take powdered milk at the intern’s mess. Today was rather smooth. I enjoyed my day. Especially the part where I got my first Munyankole client in this place. I […]
I want to invest in thick black curtains. Woke up at 6:25am this morning way earlier than my alarm clock . I sleep on the topmost floor of one of the intern’s flat, and I have light green curtains. They “usher” all the light into my room and it disturbs my morning sleep. 6:30am here […]
Sooo….Day 2. Today started off with me completing my night call duty which went on till this morning. Somehow I managed to take 40 minutes to go shower, have breakfast and be back for the morning meeting before 8:30am I worked in Gynecology OPD today with a medical officer. Was a good day. But of […]
If I were to grieve about language barrier, I can say I’m already at the 5th stage of grief..Acceptance . I have in the last 3 days slowly accepted the fact that I’ll never learn how to speak Acholi. The native language here in Gulu , and so I have to use an interpreter for […]
Hey Lovelies, its 30th September. As earlier promised, I start a new category on this blog and its going to run for exactly one year during my internship. Day 0, soo….. Internship starts tomorrow, but I and my entire team of intern doctors , pharmacists and nurses arrived at St.Mary’s hospital Lacor, in the northern […]
I have heard the stories and I have seen it with my own eyes. Young couple falls in love , 3 months down, the proposal happens…..these days proposals go up to 30million Ugx then the traditional wedding ceremonies, then the religious weddings, then honeymoon..bla bla bla… In a short space of 4 months, close to […]
While in Capetown last year , my friends and I decided to go visit the museum where the world’s first successful heart transplant was done at Groote Schuur hospital and there after decided to go visit the university of Capetown to make afew connections and contact before heading back to Uganda. When we were done, […]
