goodbye mr rat.

nameeta and i hadn't seen the rat that sue saw her first week here.  until today.  he unfortunately died and was swept up into a corner until he was disposed of... maybe he got into some chemo?  hopefully he was a he and didn't leave any little ones behind...

this morning, sue gave a kind of grand rounds- a lecture to the interns, residents, and some consultants (no medical students as they have been granted a "breather" for the next two weeks to study for exams).  she discussed what to do/what to think about when you are worried a patient has cancer.  soon after her lecture, two new patients were delivered from the general pediatric ward as her lecture set off alarm bells in the doctors head... we will see what they have. 

nameeta and i were charged this morning with preparing several lectures for the interns/residents to take place tomorrow afternoon... so, we are working on getting those together - in addition to our usual morning lecture.  hopefully we can find some previously created lectures in our stash that we brought with us. 

last evening, a fundi (a worker of any sort- this one happened to be a tailor) came to the apartment to make dresses out of the materials we bought while on our bike tour (did i already write about this?  i am having deja vu).   anyway, we giggled our way through the measurements.  he is going to bring the dresses by on thursday for a fitting and they will be done by the time we leave on saturday! 

nameeta and i spent the afternoon today gathering together the information we have collected in our mini chart review- hoping to give the doctors here some information on their patients and areas of successes and areas of challenges.  it has been interesting to read through the charts and see how children present to medical care and the challenges surrounding that.

ok i must go... lectures are not preparing themselves.