Sandman, Captain Redbeard, and Friends

Things have been busy, and the internet non-existent. The past two weekends have been filled with visiting friends and good times. Two weekends ago, Matt Pope's sister and her fiance came to town from Kenya. They are working at the Uganda Christian University with a program called Save the Mothers- an initiative to reduce the unacceptable level of maternal mortality based out of McMaster university (Matt's blog is linked to this site). This past weekend, Elliot (Redbeard) and Sand(man)i came from Tanzania. They are travelling the continent and decided to grace Kampala with their presence. One night, there was Elliot, Sandi, Emily Shelton, and Erin Hunt all in one room: a virtual Oak Bay High reunion in Africa, all unrelated trips converging! Anyways, enough about people that most of you don't know. Chelsea bought fake hair, and got it braided on Sunday. It took 5 hours and 4 ladies to accomplish, but looks great! Computer lessons are going well, with Powerpoint being the most popular (and easy to impress with). This week is the last for these students, and we will devote more time at the hospital next week and onwards. This Wednesday, Chelsea and I have an appointment with the Associate Dean of Education, Makerere Medical School. He has asked that we help him set up new equipment: being from Canada (or the US, UK etc) garners unmerited status as an expert in a variety of things!

Today, we spent the morning at rounds in the maternity ward, and I got to feel for uteruses (uteri?) post-birth. They are still enlarged, un-symmetrically located areas of hardness. Very neat! We have been promised a birth, but it wasn't in the cards today...