Another day and more challenges! The last two days have been great. We are being well cared for here in the Congo. The area where we are staying is rural, a farming community where the hospital is the biggest employer. The hospital supplies the guest house and we have a gentleman who cooks and takes care of laundry. He is a great cook and right now I am resting off beef tips and rice, greens, tomatoes and mango for dessert.
Yesterday we drained a pelvic abcess from a young boy, removed a prostate, did a c section and then a sub total thyroidectomy. Today we operated on a two year old girl with terrible burn contractures which pulled her head to the right into her shoulder and her arm toward her face. This required removing most of the scar tissue and extensive skin grafting. We also had to do a colostomy on a 2 month old girl with a birth defect. This afternoon we placed an external fixator on a 5 yo girls femur. She had been shot by the LRA or group of bandits. They were harassing her family and her father was shot and killed defending them, she was then shot in the leg, shattering the middle portion. Evidently she had issues with infection after her first operation and when we saw her she was in a huge cast and had a nonunion (no healing) of the fracture.
Tomorrow we should have a lighter day unless more emergencies come in. We will do a little exploring.
Keep praying, In Christ's love,
Mark and Mary
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