on after she had brought it in and layed it with the clothes. She
had taken it off the clothes line the day before.
Past Wed we had a very large ovarian tumor that came out easily but
there were inguinal and periaortic nodes so I’m not sure if cancer or
just lots of inflammation. Then I did a myomectomy of a 12 cm
fibroid from the apex of an uterus (she wanted more children) and
amazingly the uterus looked nearly normal when we got done with it
also normal tubes and ovaries. Then had a hematouterus with lots of
old blood in the enlarged uterine cavity but no products of conception
but appeared to be old retained menses. Her internal os of cervix was
stenosed closed so opened it and did a curettage and found nothing
else. In the past week we have had two sets of twins and one set of
triplets then another set of twins two weeks before which was from a
lady with ecclampsia so she was delivered by c-section and did ok but
the others were all vaginal deliveries. We now have 3 that have the
abdominal wounds packed open. One was a previous c-section that had
gotten severely infected and another was a typhoid perforation that
had multiple perforations repaired but developed another or else we
missed one so repeat surgery closing the fistula and packed her open.
The third one was a previous that was infected and now is almost
closed.
We are moved into our “new house” although nothing is organized yet.
We don’t have hardly any shelves up yet so we can put stuff away.
We are able to sleep in the bed there and it is much quieter than
where we were in the apartment for the past two years. We now don’t
have the roosters crowing under our window or the dogs barking at the
door or someone sweeping the yard by the door all of which usually
began about 5:00 am. I still wake up with daylight anyway. We
have spare beds in the other bedrooms so come visit us. Although the
bed rooms may have to act as storage places for awhile. Of course we
still have the shipping container that we are using for storage of
some things. It seems that the bugs moved in with us so I now have
sprayed pyrethrin around the outside and inside where the metal walls
are sitting on the cement and around the windows and will see if that
helps. We have our kerosene refrigerator going and it keeps stuff
real cold and we have our large freezer running that is supposed to
use no more power than a 100 watt bulb or max of 140 watts. We are
also using our new stove from America that was in our container that
even has electronic ignition and a large oven. Dolores really likes
it as compared to the one burner stove and small oven that we have
been using the past two years. Dolores is trying to get some
curtains made for the windows for looks as the windows are semi-opaque
anyway. She is even making some ice cream and some smoothies (all
vegan). They really taste good esp on hot evenings.
Zane and Lyol already have malaria with fever and are taking quinine.
There has also been some GI bug maybe Giardia or some virus going
around. So far Dolores and I are healthy. Two of the student
missionaries have malaria again.
We enjoy emails even if we might be slow answering sometimes. Our
internet service is only part time and very slow and costs as much as
back home would be for good service.
Our emails are: dfbland01@gmail.com and drbland@sbcglobal.net
Love Rollin and Dolores
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