It is sad. We lost two patients today. The pregnant woman with burns whom we sent to Benson Hospital on Friday, died that night. The baby was stillborn. The mother's blood pressure remained low after transfer and she succumbed hours later.
I was still in a state of excitement after yesterday's operation, but we have had another even more exciting and horrid event happen in our compound this morning.
It's a great day for me today. I was called up at 2:30am yesterday morning and later operated on a boy with typhoid peritonitis. I finally returned home at 1am this morning after assisting John with two laparotomies.
Yesterday was a busy day. I was called back to the hospital at 7:30am and worked until 8pm, almost non-stop. I slept at 9:30pm after my supper and a bath, and woke up again at 5:30am. Fortunately, I had not been called.
This has been the most quiet and relaxing evening for me so far in Monrovia. Four people left yesterday. John and Mike are on emergency OT in the hospital. I'm off duty today. Other people are not around and I'm alone in the compound.
