Well one week down. So much to take in....difficult to pull it all togeteher.
We started the day out at the Hospital with the Zimbabwe nurses thanking us with singing us a song. So beautiful and touching.
Later in the recovery room I had a baby who was Very fussy The 2 Zim nurses who did solo's just happened to be in the PA CU... HMM... I asked them to sing to the baby. In minutes this baby was asleep. Later I will add a video of the singing. I think it is very African to sing, so I am appreciating the simplicity of their voices.
Each day I learn a little more about my new friend Tino. He is close to 7. Today I had hopes of taking him out to the fresh air and sunshine. Today when we arrived he was out of his crib in the hall...we never had seem him out of the crib in 5 days...maybe we are trend setters. So off we go walking with his walker... when we approached the door he sat down NO going for Tito. So I decided to follow his need . We back tracked and went in the opposite direction. Back and forth we went for a half an hour. Until i need to go and recover the first surgeries.
Kathy Clinch is a pediatric anesthesiologist from Minneapolis, she is one kick in the pants. Every night she finds someone to poke fun at. She led the Zim & our staff thru the OR doing the Congo on Wed. Yesterday she convived Travis one of the surgeons to lead the line doing the chicken dance thru the other surgeons room. Today we did a line dance thru the ward for the kids and families.
Wed evening I thought she should get some of her own medicine.... so at dinner I slipped away with another team member...some one from Minneapolis.... we took a some of the yard art and plaed it in Kathy's bed. Rumor has it that she only saw it when she got in bed.....needless to say I am dead meat because I got caught on video and my accomplice was a SNITCH.....the yard art is now traveling from room to room
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