On our way home in June we will be going through Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland. It never gets very warm in Iceland so we will probably have to wear all our clothes to keep warm maybe in Norway also. we are planning a trip to Runde Island off Norway coast to see puffins and other birds. We are looking forward to seeing several scenic fjords etc. of Norway.
The number patients in the hospital and surgery has really slowed down now. There are always some malaria patients. We had a little boy with pleural effusion and pericardial effusion which was drained. We plan to take out the chest tube today maybe. We also had a little one year boy with malaria and typhoid being treated for 3 days then had something protruding from his anus and he could not defecate and he was vomiting. He had an intussisseption protruding from his anus that we could not reduce. We took him to surgery and found an intussisseption within an intussisseption partly necrosed so had to resect his terminal ilium and ascending colon and reconnect his intestines. He had high fever pre and post op but I was somewhat optimistic that he might live but he died the next day. Malaria, typhoid, and all this surgery was just too much. We had another leg amputation this time for necrosed diabetic foot.
Dolores is tired of doing mangoes for drying and canning etc. Mangoes are still falling on our metal roof and make a terrific noise when they hit. Now she is making some fruit leathers with mango pulp that she lends up. We have more shade with our house by the mango trees but have to endure the mangoes hitting the roof in mango season.
Our internet is barely functional so hardly ever can get Facebook and things like that but can usually eventually get simple emails.
Our emails are drbland@sbcglobal.net and dfbland01@gmail.com
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