Monkey Brain Musings

Sunday, May 12, 2024 Hello, friends! I have been home for a week now, and finally think my brain is in the right time zone, so it's catch-up time. My last week in Uganda feels like such a long time ago! I went to CHI on the Monday of my last week, to reunite and work with Dr. Lillian, a physician that has been getting ultrasound training. When I travelled to Kenya and Uganda last year, I spent a couple of days training Dr. Lillian, and we were both excited to see each other again. I was thrilled with her progress, and she was very complimentary of her training with Gingo, which made for a good day for all of us. Dr Lillian, Gingo and me! The rest of the week was uneventful, except that I managed to get a head cold for a few days. Kampala is a very dusty, busy city (lots of air pollution from the bodas, buses and cars), which aggravates my sinuses, activates my asthma, and leaves me with a head cold. I decided to get out of town a day early and spent my last 2 days in Entebbe, at a ...

 Saturday 4/26/2024 Hello! You might want to get comfortable, grab a snack, and put your feet up. This will be a long one! 😁 I am back from the Ssese Islands, visiting 3 islands and 5 clinics in 3 days.  Let's back all the way up to last Friday. I went to CHI for the day, but there were no patients. The clinics that I have worked with here do not run as they do back in the states. There are no appointments made, patients just show up, first come first served, or they don't. Gingo has been asked to create SOPs for the clinic, which is not something he is familiar with or has any experience doing, so I helped him with some research and examples, talked about some other resources that I may be able to send him, and then I headed back to the office.  When Picho and I arrived at the office we were informed that, once again, the trip to the islands might have to be postponed again due to a last-minute request from the US team.  Renny had responded with the requested paper...