Suzanne's Mission Adventures

So today was a VERY hard day.  Or should I say that this whole month has been a hard month and it all came crashing down today.  So the past 4 and half weeks we have been doing Women's Health, which involves very sad patient stories.  Which is emotionally draining learning about some of these ladies.  Then on top of that the past week and half, we have not been having good outcomes from the surgeries.  One of our patients had an ileus, another had to have an ostomy, multiple have spiked fevers and have been on the verge of being septic, and then we have had 5 to 7 surgeries fail.  So that has all been going on with Women's Health.  It has been hard to work on B ward with these ladies.  (I will write a blog post later about what we do in Women's health) And then today happened.  Today that about crushed or did crush the nurses, doctors, and day crew.  2 months ago we were able to care of a little 4 month old plastics patients.  S...

What to write about.  There has been so much that has happened over the past 3 months.  Wow!  3 months!  Time sure does fly by.  I am over half way.  In 2 months I should be in JFK going through customs at this time and getting ready to board my plane to Cleveland.  In 2 months I'll be almost home and so close to snuggling my munchkins!  But in these 3 months I have gotten to see and work with, general (hernias, lymphomas, goiters and others), pediatric eye, othro, plastics, maxfax, and women's health surgeries.  I can only imagine what all I will see next. It has been so nice meeting new people and making friendships.  But at the same time it is hard too.  More people have left to go back home, which is hard.   It makes me sad to see them leave and it makes me just a little bit more homesick.  And then I think, I have been here for 3 months, I only have 2 left...those 2 are going to fly by!  The first 3 have f...