It's officially the end of orthopedic surgery. The orthopedic surgeries are done early in the field service, because they require lots of follow up visits. They sometimes need re-casting, and there's a lot of physical therapy. The follow up care will continue, but they'll be outpatients.
There's a favorite story about a little boy who had two casts put on after surgery. The nurses couldn't figure out why he would not stop crying. Was he in pain? What was wrong?
He was worried that they had taken away his Africa legs, and given him white legs!
We've seen lots of kids in the halls of the hospital, trying out crutches, or being carried by the nurses.
The hospital is on deck 3. Every day, the nurses carry these kids up the stairs so they can go outside on deck 7. There they can be outside and they get pulled around in wagons. That's a lot of carrying kids up a lot of stairs!
African women have a very efficient way of carrying their children.
The nurses have adopted this practice. It's a lot easier to carry all these kids around-and it's hands free!
One male nurse had a baby strapped to his back. The African men were laughing so hard,they could hardly stand up! Imagine a white man carrying a baby like an African woman!
Here are our two latest crew members and their moms. Not quite the African way, but close!
Debbie
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