Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Well the last 2 days have been excellent! Monday Kal (a doctor from the UK) arrived. He brought all sorts of goodies which was nice. I spent the afternoon at an AIDS clinic with a woman who's husband died a few years ago of AIDS. He had other wives and girlfriends that she knew nothing about. Even though I wasn't the one being tested it is soooo nerve racking. However God as usual is good and she's negative. We also had to go for a chest xray and it turns out she has PCP, a type of pneumonia. She'll be fine. Yesterday was another medical day. We ran some errands in town and stopped by St. Marys (our parish) and saw a woman with a 2 year old son, who had an awful cough. He was lethargic, had wheezing breathing and just irritable. He can't walk or talk and looks about 1. She had been to the hospital and they told her she needed to buy him a care card and medication. She is living out of a dumpster and makes money by having sex. She's a code 1 (HIV positive) luckily the baby isn't. Anyways we took her to the hospital and Kal and I went to talk to the pharmacist about getting some meds for him while they waited in the line to get him a card. Turns out because the baby is under the age of 5 he gets his card and meds for free. The hospital wanted to get money out of her and so they lied. We were able to speed up the process and get her the meds she needed and the card all in 1 HOUR, which in any country is unheard of. So the baby will be fine, we asked the mother to keep in contact so we can keep an eye on both mother and son. The 3 of us make a good team, complement each other and pick up where the last one leaves off.

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