I spent part of Christmas Day in the OR, operating on a lady with ruptured ectopic pregnancy that bled a lot into her abdomen and almost died but she has survived with the surgery and a few units of blood given. Today was in the OR with a perforated gastric ulcer with lots of gastric contents in the abdomen. Hopefully he will do well. We had 117 cases in the book for December so have been busy besides having to see the major portion of the inpatients.
We have watched some Christmas movies and it is still "cold" here down in the 50's F each morning with lots of harmatten dust from the Sahara. Also there is lots of pollen in the air as the mangoes are really blooming now. It seems they are blooming more this year than last year. The beautiful red-orange flowers of the kapok tree are beginning to show. Some say that people are giving more attention to Christmas than they did formerly. There were even some Christmas carols (in English) on the local radio station. One of our neighbors (the hospital administrator) had his radio loud enough each morning and evening so we had the "benefit". On Christmas Day we had a late lunch or dinner and the same for New Year's.
We got some ripe papayas from our trees by our house today. The kittens over at Danae's house are really cute but wild now. Dolores has been feeding them milk, peanut butter balls, and some fish. They are not weaned yet. Maybe Lyol and Zane can tame them when they get here in less than 3 weeks. There are 5 kittens and already 4 are spoken for that someone wants them. They say that the rats are worse this year than most years maybe because the crops are less.
No more holidays for awhile so maybe we can all get to work. Ha!
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Love, Rollin and Dolores
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