saturday at jengo la watoto

we went in to round this morning... and we were out earlier than we would be at home - pretty impressive!

two new patients came in overnight - one with likely stage IV neuroblastoma and one with ? burkitts lymphoma.  so, we went through some of their work up with the team - but will continue the work up tomorrow.  nameeta and i also discussed how we treat AML back home - often with bone marrow transplant...which prompted an explanation/discussion of transplant. 

the kids are becoming a little more bold in their interactions with us... chasing us and being chased, running up to us to give hugs or high-fives, playing hide and seek, charming us with toothy grins.  the little girl in the picture above gives us a little dance each day... nameeta instructed her on a more advanced twist dancing technique, which she demonstrates daily quite enthusiastically.  she is also obsessed with glasses and grabs mine each day, returning them reluctantly with millions of fingerprints.  today, she and one of her little friends grabbed both my arms and inspected them for veins.  they were pleased to find my very visible veins and pretended to place IVs.  no one has central line here so they get IVs frequently - in the cannulation room - a very memorable event it seems.  so, they traced each vein finding the place they wanted to insert the iv.  a little play therapy perhaps went a long way.

we are home now, going to eat lunch and then off to shopping and dinner at a hotel along the Indian Ocean - so fancy!!  

i wish there were snow cones.