Medicine

I forgot to mention the clinic. The doctor here is Doctor Tyler. Him and his wife and four little kids, traveled in time here from 1950, and have lived here for almost three years. They have the perfect little white family. The kids go to school with all the little black kids, and they are way too well behaved.

Elle, Gareth, and I have been spending a bit of time with the Doctor, visiting him in the clinic and observing what he does up there. We haven't had much hands on but we've seen tests for malaria mostly. Everyone gets Malaria here. Somebody gets sent home from school with it every day it seems. It doesn't kill them here, they just treat it and then get better. And then get it again later.

We've also taken a few trips with him into Kampala to take patients to the hospital for tests or work that he can't do in the clinic on sight. We took little Martin to the eye doctor at Mengo Hospital (photo) for new eyeglasses. Elle and I helped him pic them out.

Also we took Mama Betty and little Harriet to a different hospital for some blood work. Betty has arthritis AND diabetes...and she takes care of 6 or 7 little children. Harriet had some stomache thing.