Thursday, May 22, 2008

back again

Blogging is bad when it's too introspective; I've had a hard time find
things worth blogging about the past few weeks after getting back from
vacation with my family. I've started thinking about where I'll be in
December and what life will look like after two years at Mukinge, but at
the same time I seem to find my responsibilities here continuing to
expand -- now spearheading our nutrition outreach, filling in for Jairos
in the mobile eye clinics, helping to orient pharmacists and lab
technicians, neither of which I have much of a clue about -- and so
forth. It's been a relief to have a full complement of doctors around
to take some of the burden of clinical work from me, but it's changed my
day-to-day routine quite a bit. Today and tomorrow we will go to the
villages to teach the community about nutrition, how to make a balanced
diet for their children, and suspend dozens of screaming children from
our scales as we monitor malnutrition in the various areas.

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