Recap of my Thursday–plus thoughts on healthcare, motherhood, and marriage

My sister was born 25 years ago today!! Happy Birthday Erica! I love you and miss you and I can’t wait to celebrate your birthday when I get home. This morning, Jenny (the lab technician at the clinic) picked us up to go to the clinic.  Alice and Jenny are good friends and their kids [...]

PATE D’ARACHIDE!

It was a pretty slow day at the clinic today. When we arrived at the clinic…we went and took vitals of the patients who had been there overnight.  Dr. F showed us the ultrasound of the woman who had “debris” in her uterus.  It turns out that she actually had very large cysts on both [...]

Tuesday the 28th

I apologize for the late post…this is from Tuesday the 28th of July…my excuse will be fully explained at the end… Kirsten and I went back to Navigators today.  It was a fairly slow day.  The pregnant woman who had fainted the day before was stayed in the broken X-ray room overnight…so we went in [...]

Painful burns, painted finernails, and playing with streetkids

Today we returned to Dr. F’s clinic!  The staff was so happy to see us back and it was really fun to catch up with Julia.  Kirsten and I spent the most of the morning observing the midwife.  In Burkina, midwifes are essentially pediatricians—they see kids until age 5.  We saw a few expectant mothers [...]

SOCCER SUNDAY

This morning, the Brokopp family picked me and Kirsten up and brought us to Central Church.  Pete actually dropped us off on the side of the road because he had to go to another church and didn’t want to go into the church and leave.  Church this morning was great.  I love singing in French [...]

Appleton Team’s Last Day

Today was the Appleton team’s last day in Burkina. Pete picked us up and we went out to Tangehn to play with children and visit the site that the last Appleton team helped build a wall for. We sang a lot of songs with the kids—the chicken dance, the hokie pokie etc. We also did [...]

Zoofari

Last night…Kirsten and I sat in the dining area of the guesthouse after everyone had gone to sleep and talked about what God has been doing in our lives here in Burkina.  It was really great to hear from her and open up with her.  It was interesting to see how our different experiences have [...]

Time with Tinwende

My posts are a day behind or so…this is from Thursday… This morning we went back to the Compassion International site at EAC and I got ot see Tinwende again!  When she saw me in her classroom, she recognized me immediately!  It was so wonderful to see that gorgeous smile stretch across her face.  She [...]

Playing Hooky

I put my waterbottle in the freezer last night…and being the genius that I am with all my knowledge of the properties of water…I filled it all the way up. So this morning when I went to take it out of the freezer—the cap had ballooned up and the pressure was so tight I thought [...]

Dr. P was back at the clinic today after his vacation to Ghana—so Kirsten and I spent our morning with him.  It was painfully slow today…only 2 patients. One was a couple from Belgium and the husband had back pain (the consultation was done in Flemish) and the other was a 12 year old boy [...]