Sunday 27th February
Awake early for chapel at 8am. The message was “Don’t be afraid Just believe” using the passage in Mark chapter 5 about the raising of Jairus’s daughter. This seemed very appropriate when Rachel who is the Doctor working in paediatrics called for some help a couple of hours later with a 1 month old twin who was brought in nearly dead from malnutrition. Rachel had already done a lot to start resuscitating the child but it still had a very low heart rate of 60 and breathing very erratically when I arrived. Between the 2 of us we performed bag ventilation and cardiac massage for half an hour finally helped further by Catriona a specialist anaesthetic registrar who happens to be here for 2 weeks. I did pray for this child while we were working on him and it was wonderful to slowly feel his hand grip you finger then start to move both arms before he started to breath more spontaneously and the heart rate increased to 90. He has a long way to go but there is at least hope. It seemed to echo very strongly what the sermon had been about earlier.
We needed a walk this afternoon to unwind which was very pleasant as we tried to retrace the route of a walk I had been on when I was here in October. There are some beautiful views taking a circuit around the hill behind the hospital
With Catriona on our walk this afternoon
A couple of photos to show you where home is for us currently! It is somewhat dark but thankfully bug free unlike the room I was using for the 2 weeks before Ann arrived.
Note much needed fan and mosquito net!
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