VIOLAH NAHURIRA
Memoir of a medical intern… Day 3
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 […]
Memoir of a Medical Intern..Day 2
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 […]
Memoir of a medical intern…..Day 1
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 […]
Memoir of a medical intern……Day 0
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 […]
Do we really need big weddings? Big houses?
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 […]
My No option moments……part 1
While touring and sight seeing in Capetown early this year in the company of two friends, we took enough pictures and made countless videos, that we didn’t notice our phone batteries drain to 0% . none of us had carried a power bank. By that time, around 3:30pm, we had reached HOUT BAY, a suburb […]