I tumbled down from a height of around 3 feet from the ground on my head today.By God's grace some one broke the full impact of the fall trying to hold me back so that saved my neck from breaking so now I have a sprained neck and a shoulder for a few days.
Had a busy night trying to resuscitate a patient of brain-stem bleed with a tracheostomy tube who had most probably developed a nosocomial pneumonia-I did not hold much hope for him but strange things happen here as limited as the facilities are.He was breathing better and his temperature had considerably come down.We had to knock doors of the local pharmaccies and managed to get some leincomycin,we had amikacin and pip-taz with us.
Sanish is back so I have the luxury of having someone to take the call at night.
Tomorrow I have a hysterectomy posted at eight in the morning.Hopefully my neck and my shoulder will relax with the analgesic to allow me to do the surgery uninterrupted.
I have also intrestingly been analysing the stats and demographic profile of all the patients and services we have provided in the past nine months and it is throwing up some pretty interesting results.Analysing datas clear a lot of notions one
entertains otherwise.
I was of the impression that I was seeing mostly surgical and obstetric cases but the datas made me realise how wrong I was.I was seeing five times more medicine patients than all other specialities but the other specialities being out of my comfort zone seems to occupy more of my thought life.
I just love this part.I got a map of the local area and mapped out our catchment area as well.I was doing exactly that today when I fell down, I was excitedly confirming certain facts from the community health staffs who had sauntered into my out-patient.
In the meantime a local fellow wanted his wife's delivary to take place in our hospital but he had insured the cord blood for preservation in a lab in Chennai for the next twenty years.He came with the kit et al.This is a new one for our humble hospital but we are going ahead with it.
There is nothing more scarier than a heart that has hardened .I was talking to Mary the other day,infact weeping with her There is a deep restlessnessness inside.Thank God for it becuase it shows that I have not resigned myself to the way things are.I was telling her I miss the deep experience of seeing the image of Christ and the compassion of the Holy spirit which just used to overwhelm my heart when I saw the image of Christ in people ,situation and the creation. What is the image of Christ?It is a body marred and maimed to bear the sin of the world.it is a voice that did not speak in protest against God the father,who actually planned it all before the creation of the world,not against the people who maimed Him ,flogged Him,drove the nails into His hands and feet to satisfy their sinful nature.The image of Christ is a body broken to the utmost yet given to feed the very same people .It is a love that did not count the cost. I am a person who does not put too much v...
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