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Its my Country, Uganda’s independence day today, but I low key feel colonised. I woke up feeling tired, I was woken up at 11:20pm last night by a colleague on duty to help him ease his workload. Returned to my bed at around 2am. As I walked to ward this morning, a patient I had […]
Today I felt helpless when I couldn’t communicate because of language barrier. I almost shed my first internship tear. My Day ended at 8:30pm. I was in my bed by 9:20pm……what is life?
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 […]
