Quick update

I wish I had a minute to write more but don’t today.  The cholera house had 90 patients in it this AM.  90, yes, this non-nurse Licia is a little freaked out today, but we are not telling Lori 🙂  as she is dealing with so much already.  I worked

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Kay Kolera

We do a bed count each evening at the cholera house.  This week we had the highest 87 patients sleeping at the house.  59 of those were on IV’s and 28 were drinking ORS.  Each of these patients has a caregiver that is sleeping in a chair by them.  Now there

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Food Boxes

 RHFH continues every two weeks to give food boxes out to over 150 family in the Cazale community.  Many of these families are our HIV and TB patients, widows and those that cannot work due to being ill or just to old.  We count it a privilege to be able to

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Catching up…

Charlie is scheduled to have surgery tomorrow to have a rod inserted into his leg.  Lori came back to Cazale for one night to get some good sleep and  to regroup.  Sleeping on a piece of cardboard under a bed is not easy.  Lori left this afternoon with a very

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Believe it or not

I have been checking the blog three or four times a day hoping that Casey would give me something.  I am sad today there is nothing here, so very sad. 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Look how one week of medika mamba can change a kid.  Amazing!

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New kids in the tent

DAGENOR He is 4 years old and weighs 32 pounds.  He has kwashiorkor.  He could not sit up when admitted and was in bad shape.  He is very, very anemic and sick. He is currently on the medika mamba program. His legs are very tight and painful from the kwashiorkor.

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