A Beautiful Compromise!
A lot has been happening at the
Baby Unit recently, and one of the exciting developments is that finally we
have a space to accommodate babies born outside the hospital, without high risk
of cross-infection. It’s been a
compromise, as instead of an “extension”, it’s more of a “partition”, but it’s
been beautifully decorated by some willing volunteers, including Shauna
visiting from the UK, Katie, our splendid gap yearer, and from the White Eagle
Project, both Aunt Sarah and Catherine who recently finished her primary school P7 exams.
This is great news for all of us
at the Baby Unit, as we’re really eager to help as many babies as we possibly
can to thrive! Below is a picture of our
head nurse Cathy, with two of our preterm babies and their proud maamas.
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A Pox (Pocks) on our House….
Whilst those of you in exotic
locations such as the USA or Europe may be mulling over the risk of Ebola
virus, we too have been plagued by a virus – albeit a slightly more mundane
one. Yes, Noah (along with most of the
kids that he knows at the Danish Kindergarten that he goes to once a week) has
been afflicted by chickenpox. It had to
happen sometime, and he mostly took it with good humour, albeit stopping every now
and then to furiously scratch.
That said, on a more tropical note,
he has allegedly since been diagnosed with malaria, though this doesn’t seem to
have phased him in the slightest (and his cynical maama is not particularly
convinced that the blood slide was correct).
Farewell to a Fabulous Man!
As well as a month of exciting
developments here in Uganda, October was also a month of sadness for Sarah’s
American family, including the loss of her beloved and fantastic grandpa, Dama
(Oliver Crosby). Words are probably
insufficient to explain properly how amazing he was, but anyone who met him
knows that he was one of a kind, a tremendously warm, humorous and intelligent
man. He will be massively missed by so
many.
