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Love from Zambia: March 2011
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Http:/ www.kalenehospital.com. Saturday, 26 March 2011. Chanti chanti (bit by bit)! We are really enjoying living in Bamboo Cottage. James and Ruth, who were living here previously, have made it a lovely home. It is complete with Kenwood mixer and a Singer sewing machine – what more could a girl ask for? It is nice to be on the mission compound and to feel more part of the community. She is being shared amongst the mission staff and I love it when it’s our turn! We have even been doing some night shifts!
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Love from Zambia: April 2011
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Http:/ www.kalenehospital.com. Sunday, 17 April 2011. Blood, sweat and tears. I very bravely donated (you’d think so too if you could see our laboratory! And have a very beautiful bruise to show for it (blood)! Needless to say, we were very sad and disappointed to come in the following morning to find that she had died. No blood, no fluids etc - to someone locking the keys in the linen cupboard - to patients refusing to put their mosquito nets down at night. And she also has cryptococcal meningitis. ...
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Love from Zambia: August 2011
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Http:/ www.kalenehospital.com. Wednesday, 31 August 2011. You might not expect to witness the changing of the seasons in sub-saharan Africa but we can feel a real difference in the climate now. The roads have turned to sand; we are about to do away with our duvet; we can no longer get any milk or dairy products from the farm and I can work up a nice sweat in the time it takes me to walk home from the hospital for lunch. We have had a few visitations from some of the local wildlife over the past month!
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Love from Zambia: November 2011
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Http:/ www.kalenehospital.com. Monday, 28 November 2011. We thought you'd like to see some of the highlights of the past month or so - we hope you enjoy these pictures! I am very proud of the fact that I have managed to resize and upload these BY MYSELF! It's so funny that it has taken a year in the bush to make me update some of my IT skills! We had a visit to Hillwood to see Christine and the other children there. I love this photo! We were invited to Chitokoloki Mission Hospital for a month.᥿...
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Love from Zambia: June 2011
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Http:/ www.kalenehospital.com. Wednesday, 8 June 2011. I thought I would give a summary of the surgical work I’ve been involved with since our arrival at Kalene. The medical director at Kalene, John Woodfield, is a general (colorectal) surgeon who is from New Zealand and trained in the UK. There is an orthopaedic surgeon, Peter Gill, who alternates working at Kalene and in Sunderland, UK on a three month basis. We have a fairly unique arrangement for histology. Very few rural hospitals in Africa have...
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Love from Zambia: October 2011
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Http:/ www.kalenehospital.com. Monday, 3 October 2011. Stitching a finger back together in theatre. Learning to scan - we start 'em young at KMH! Christopher just checking her findings. Dr Phil with little Willie (omphalacoele) who has now gone home. Josiah helping to look after Christine on Fisher Ward. Helping to make cupcakes - what could be more perfect? I nearly lost her on her play mat she was so colour co-ordinated! Links to this post. Sunday, 2 October 2011. TIA: This Is Africa. I am trusting God...
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Love from Zambia: July 2011
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Http:/ www.kalenehospital.com. Friday, 29 July 2011. I can’t believe I forgot to tell you about Katengo. Many of you have asked about this little girl. She was admitted in May with a facial tumour (Burkitt’s lymphoema). We were shocked when we returned from the. Their example reminds of the unconditional love God has for us. Their faith is a great encouragement to us all. Links to this post. Thursday, 28 July 2011. African Working Time Directive! We arrived back in Kalene at the end of June to a very dif...
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Love from Zambia: A Kalene Christmas
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Http:/ www.kalenehospital.com. Saturday, 24 December 2011. You’d be excused for thinking that Christmas is a bit of a non-event out here in the bush but we’ve been determined to bring some festive cheer to Kalene! We had a party for the ‘old ladies’ who live in a little of colony just next to Kalene. Years ago they were falsely accused of witchcraft and were made outcasts by the community. Well, the 5 of them had a ball! We also played a Zambian version of ‘Chinese laundry.’ This game inv...Some Kalene '...
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Love from Zambia: May 2011
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Http:/ www.kalenehospital.com. Monday, 30 May 2011. We’ve recently returned from two weeks language study. We stayed at Hillwood Farm and Sakeji School. We have discovered that Lunda is quite a tricky language to learn! It is mostly phoenetic with a few exceptions but it is a tonal language so the emphasis must be correct, otherwise you could be saying something you really did not intend! We were in a little rondavel (until we were plagued by hundreds of cockroaches – thankfully we were evacuated! It was...