I woke up to see that the little girl was back to breastfeeding, just three hours after needing adrenaline for a slow heart rate. Yay! It’s a good day :)
The muezzin’s call is crackly over the loudspeaker. I was jerked awake by thoughts of our little guy in the new TB isolation tent. He’s here with his mother, a woman whose dramatically-beautiful
The humidity here is through the roof. My hair is….a creature. A very curly creature. There are goats out my window, and kids playing soccer in a tin can and remains of buildings strewn next doo
So…a bit more about our tent city--the Paediatric Malnutrition Intensive Care Unit, or ICU. We work in three massive tents set up in the yard of the Red Crescent.
We stepped out of the airplane into tropical air and it was so hot I burst out laughing. It was 31 degrees at 2am and thick with moisture. So hot, so humid, the air itself was alive. I just kept