The weather here is driving me NUTS! One minute it's a perfect cloudless day and then 20 minutes later the sky is covered in clouds. One minute there is no chance of snow and then 20 minutes later we have 4 inches of snow on the ground. Then to make matters even worse it has been snowing a few inches at night and by 1 in the afternoon it's all melted. It makes for a pretty muddy mess. Without any roads or anything paved, you basically just walk through mud every where you go. But enough about the weather - I know all of you have it much worse weather wise then I do :)
I went over to the clinic today. It was a great day. We got told how much we have changed the clinic and how much we have improved it. It's great to be able to give a mother and her baby a chance, I can't tell you how rewarding it is! I'll post some more pictures of some of the patients when I get a chance.
Sorry this is a short update but I have things to do, I'll try and write later!
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Friday, January 9, 2009
1/10/2009
Here are some more photos of the women's clinic. The first is of a little girl we delivered a few days ago. The second one is of the actual delivery room. As I said before - it's pretty primitive.
Hope everyone is doing well. Talk to you soon!
Hope everyone is doing well. Talk to you soon!
Thursday, January 8, 2009
1/09/2009
Well another day is dawning in Afghaniland. Yesterday I worked at the female clinic for a few hours. Word as gotten out that we are there and we are starting to see a lot more patients. It's exciting to see that we are making a difference. I saw a young woman yesterday who was pregnant and due any day. She was having pains so she came in to get it checked out. I started talking with her and found out that she has delivered 10 babies but only 3 survived. All the others have died of malnutrition. It's such a shame considering we are the country of excess and we throw away so much of our food and yet here is a woman who has had to bury 7 of her children just because they didn't have milk.
The weather is supposed to get colder finally and we are supposed to get 2-4 inches of snow. Which means I won't be doing my first job and I can concentrate more on the woman's clinic. And in other news....the stupid mouse is still alluding me. It keeps me up at night now but it refuses to eat the food I put on the traps.....cunning little mouse! I'll get him though :)
Take care and keep in touch!
The weather is supposed to get colder finally and we are supposed to get 2-4 inches of snow. Which means I won't be doing my first job and I can concentrate more on the woman's clinic. And in other news....the stupid mouse is still alluding me. It keeps me up at night now but it refuses to eat the food I put on the traps.....cunning little mouse! I'll get him though :)
Take care and keep in touch!
Monday, January 5, 2009
Pictures...
Sunday, January 4, 2009
2009 Begins...
Hey everyone - I hope you all had a great New Year. Mine was boring but thanks to my brother it wasn't as bad as it could have been...thanks Matt :)
Winter has finally started to set in here. It was 12 degrees today and two days ago it was snowing. We are a month behind supposedly. By this time last year it was supposedly 15 below. It's nice though to look out and see snow covered mountains instead of the brown mountains we've been looking at for the past 2 months. It makes me want to go skiing though!
I've been busy working on setting up the women's clinic. I have established a woman's clinic in our Aid station on base (with the help of one other female here). We spent all night doing it - it looks amazing though. We can treat anything from minor cuts, deliveries, to surgeries in that room. It's only to be used by females and no males are allowed in it. Me and Jess have also set up the woman's clinic outside our base. It's primitive but we will be going over there 3 days a week and holding clinic hours. Word of us has spread and many females are coming from as far away as the Pakistan border. It's really exciting. It goes against the Taliban's teaching so as one Captain on base put it - "you two are doing more to destory the Taliban than any patrol or mission that the Army does." Makes me feel good that we are making a difference!
I got to deliver a little girl yesterday - the baby was so cute. I got some pictures that I'll try and post tomorrow of the women's clinic and the little girl.
Yesterday was occupied by not only delivering a baby but declaring war on the mouse that decided to move into my room. I heard rustling on my food shelf but was trying to convince myself that the noise was coming from outside. WRONG! I tracked down SSG Wirth to help me find this stupid mouse and we started digging through my shelves. We didn't find the mouse but the mouse sure made a mess of my Ramen noodles. He also decided to go to the bathroom on ALL of my shelves. So I went and come some traps and I may have overdone them. I have 6 set up in my room alone not to mention all the ones I put outside of my room. As of yet the mouse as outsmarted me and has avoided my traps, I will however triumph if it's the last thing I do. I kept waking up last night thinking I heard it....it's taunting me I know it!
I hope everyone is doing well I'll try to post again soon
Winter has finally started to set in here. It was 12 degrees today and two days ago it was snowing. We are a month behind supposedly. By this time last year it was supposedly 15 below. It's nice though to look out and see snow covered mountains instead of the brown mountains we've been looking at for the past 2 months. It makes me want to go skiing though!
I've been busy working on setting up the women's clinic. I have established a woman's clinic in our Aid station on base (with the help of one other female here). We spent all night doing it - it looks amazing though. We can treat anything from minor cuts, deliveries, to surgeries in that room. It's only to be used by females and no males are allowed in it. Me and Jess have also set up the woman's clinic outside our base. It's primitive but we will be going over there 3 days a week and holding clinic hours. Word of us has spread and many females are coming from as far away as the Pakistan border. It's really exciting. It goes against the Taliban's teaching so as one Captain on base put it - "you two are doing more to destory the Taliban than any patrol or mission that the Army does." Makes me feel good that we are making a difference!
I got to deliver a little girl yesterday - the baby was so cute. I got some pictures that I'll try and post tomorrow of the women's clinic and the little girl.
Yesterday was occupied by not only delivering a baby but declaring war on the mouse that decided to move into my room. I heard rustling on my food shelf but was trying to convince myself that the noise was coming from outside. WRONG! I tracked down SSG Wirth to help me find this stupid mouse and we started digging through my shelves. We didn't find the mouse but the mouse sure made a mess of my Ramen noodles. He also decided to go to the bathroom on ALL of my shelves. So I went and come some traps and I may have overdone them. I have 6 set up in my room alone not to mention all the ones I put outside of my room. As of yet the mouse as outsmarted me and has avoided my traps, I will however triumph if it's the last thing I do. I kept waking up last night thinking I heard it....it's taunting me I know it!
I hope everyone is doing well I'll try to post again soon
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