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Olen and Danae: Son
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Life Under the Mango Trees. Thursday, April 7, 2011. Your mother delivered you too early. You weren’t ready to be born yet. You were supposed to stay in your mother’s tummy another month or two, but your mother came to the hospital with eclampsia, which is a very bad disease. She was seizing and had a very high blood pressure. She would die without an immediate emergency C-section. Even though you were too tiny (only 1.7 kilograms, less than half the size of a normal baby! And very weak at your birth, yo...
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Olen and Danae: Addison Noel
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Life Under the Mango Trees. Wednesday, August 14, 2013. You Are. Awesome. I am so in love with you. I’ll pick up the story with vomiting. Not yours (which you’ve already done), but mine. We had both been getting baby-antsy (and more specifically, girl-antsy) for months now! So we finally went for broke. We got a room at the Sheraton in downtown Springfield, right next to the hospital. And it was a NICE room. In fact, your mother was just commenting on how comfortable the bed was, our very fir...I dropped...
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Olen and Danae: Chadian Ambulance
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Life Under the Mango Trees. Tuesday, July 7, 2015. Congratulations. You are now a Chadian villager. You are happy. Living a simple, rural life. You live in a small mud hut and provide. For your family with the simple crops that your field produces. You. Sometimes sell chickens or goats in the market. You don’t have much. Money But you don’t need much money either. You are a woman. You are a mother. You have cared for many children. Each one is special to you. Your daughter gets married and is now. Driver...
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Olen and Danae: #105 Alone
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Life Under the Mango Trees. Friday, March 30, 2012. Crap Why am I crying all the time in this country? My son spiked a fever of 101.9 yesterday. Five weeks of fevers. So far he’s received five days of IV quinine, seven days of oral quinine, two weeks of primaquine, three days of malarone, seven days of artemether, one dose of fansidar, one dose of mefloquine, a week of bactrim, a week of amoxicillin and a week of azithromycin. Please God, no. We packed until 2am. We woke up at 4am. I carried my n...Have ...
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Olen and Danae: Not Mine
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Life Under the Mango Trees. Friday, June 7, 2013. There is a certain shade of blue I know very well. All too well. It’s an icy blue. It’s cold. I’ve seen it many times in my career. The first time I saw it was fulfilling a pathology requirement in medical school. And I’ve seen it over and over in the Emergency Department. And it’s a color I hate. It’s always associated with purple lips and cold skin, like you might see on somebody’s grandparents in the funeral home. It’s the blue of death. For hours, I s...
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Olen and Danae: Tchadian medical case of the day:
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Life Under the Mango Trees. Friday, June 19, 2015. Tchadian medical case of the day:. I rounded on medicine today since Odeï is out of town for a few days. Every day I follow his patients on the electronic medical records system and physically walk through the wards and ask Odeï and the nurse how the patients are doing. We had also discussed the benefits of a nasogastric tube and started him on feeds and switched him to oral medications a few days ago. So I asked his wife, "Has he said anything? OK, grea...
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Olen and Danae: 5-year-old baby by C-section
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Life Under the Mango Trees. Saturday, March 9, 2013. 5-year-old baby by C-section. This one we’re going to entitle, “How to deliver a 5 year old baby by c-section.”. She came in one afternoon for an ultrasound referred by the nurses. At first notice, you would think she was pregnant. You would even think she was pregnant with a 5 year old by the way her belly protruded forward. She looked so uncomfortable. Our working diagnosis was a really big ovary that had taken over her entire abdomen. The week of va...
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Olen and Danae: Hemotoxic
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Life Under the Mango Trees. Monday, July 13, 2015. I hate snakes. I hate snakes. I hate snakes. I hate them even more after this story. We have some neurotoxic snakes. Their venom attacks the nervous system. There are other types of snakes here that are hemotoxic. Meaning once you get bit, the venom binds to your blood. S ability to make new blood. Your marrow can. T keep up with the slow oozing. And you eventually hemorrhage to death, or. Remember the Ebola epidemic? T contagious like with Ebola. T coag...
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scottgardner56 – Gardners Under The African Son
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Gardners Under The African Son. The mission of Scott and Bekki Gardner to The Adventist Health System, Waterloo Hospital, Sierra Leone. Surgery Pictures (Warning: Graphic). October 18, 2016. Koidu Town-Home of the Blood Diamonds. Diamond Mining in Koidu. More specifically, how can we impact their health and well-being? Our guest house in Koidu. It was really nice. Great birding spot too. Before we get too self-righteous about a pharmacist practicing medicine I must point out that it is a lot better for h...
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SORTIE – Gardners Under The African Son
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Gardners Under The African Son. The mission of Scott and Bekki Gardner to The Adventist Health System, Waterloo Hospital, Sierra Leone. Surgery Pictures (Warning: Graphic). August 14, 2015. Ortega (really that is his name, don’t have a clue where his parents got it from, maybe TV? Little Ortega in his crib, dressing on his tummy and IV in his scalp. This entry was posted in Medical. A NEW BIRTH →. 4 thoughts on “ SORTIE. August 14, 2015 at 4:32 pm. August 14, 2015 at 5:45 pm. August 17, 2015 at 12:28 pm.
