Monday, December 12, 2016

Blog 12 Dec 2016
It is cooling down here so only in the 90'sF highs and in the 60'sF lows.   It is somewhat dusty but will be more later when the "harmattan" moves in from the desert up north.
  
Danae is doing ok today but had severe vomiting and diarrhea a few days ago requiring a lot of IV fluids. (see Olen's blog   www.missionarydoctors.blogspot.com)    Her vision is about same and with dark glasses does not bother her very much in bright light.  Vision ok in dim light.   I think they came up with "Acute zonal ocult outer retinopathy" as her diagnosis from all her super specialists etc at the Univ of Maryland which they really don't know what it is or cause or treatment or prognosis.   It has not gotten any worse so far.   Several of us have had the gastrointestinal upset with nausea or diarrhea probably a virus but nothing like Danae had.   Dolores had the malaria last week but is ok now except for a headache today.   The kids are all fine now.   
We have been enjoying the papayas from our trees in our yard almost more than we can eat but goes good in fruit salads and for the kids also.   The mangoes are blooming a lot now.  The guavas are past.   They are still bringing us fresh tomatoes to buy which are quite good.  
The hospital census has been variable mostly 60-80.   The surgeries have not increased as much as normal for this time of year although had 22 the first 3 days of last week.  Had a large 2 cm perforation of intestine from typhoid last week that we had to repair but he is doing ok now.   Also had two appendectomies which is unusual especially one that was not ruptured yet.   Most have already formed an abces.  We had a fistula repair bladder to uterus-cervix.   We have one man that had a severe infection of penis and scrotum losing skin of penis and part of scrotum.   I plan to do a reconstruction of his penis with a flap of skin from scrotum and another flap to cover that area.  
We have no student missionaries this year.   I guess they are afraid of possible danger from Boko Harem although we think that is very minimal.   It is probably more dangerous in some of the most dangerous cities in the USA such as St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield,Mo, Detroit, etc.
  
Our emails are drbland42@gmail.com and  dfbland01@gmail.com.   
Have a great Christmas and New Year!
  
Rollin and  Dolores Bland 
Hopital Adventiste de Bere
Boite Postal 52
Kelo, Tandjile,  Chad,  Afrique
Blog  www.weareamissionarybland.blogspot.com  

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