Safari Time

It's been a while since our last update. We will be heading off to Maasai Mara for safari in about thirty minutes and then coming back Monday evening. Despite last-minute haggling and phone tag, it's finally going to happen.

Isaac and I are starting to get sick of Kenyan food. Beef stew, cabbage and ugali are delicious -- but after almost a month of beef stew, walking into the cafeteria and smelling it cooking will get the gag reflex going. That being said, our morning ndazis are still delicious and still only ten shillings (like 15 cents). What I would do for some Sushi Para.

There are a lot of stories from this past week, but there isn't much time so we'll blog more about them later. We watched as a man was beat up by a mob right outside the hospital entrance because the man stole a cell phone on a matatu. Our driver-friend Wilson explained that the police are too corrupt to trust and the thief should have been killed.

I also saw two patients die on my last day in the hospital (which seems to only be a big deal to those fresh from the states), including a 4-month-old baby I was taking care of. The boy had a history of hydrocephalus s/p EVD and was here with ventriculitis, seizures we couldn't control and probable pulmonary tuberculosis. The mom was probably around twenty or in her late teens. What do you say other than offer to pray for her and her son? The worst was watching her slowly walk out of the hospital by herself.

Ok time to go. We'll update later.