Today was a full day. Part of the team was at Black Lion today. We had a 4 year old admitted last night in severe respiratory distress. The local ENT surgeon considered placing a tracheostomy tube around midnight, but the child was relatively stable, so he decided to wait until the morning so we could help take care of him. He had severe disease in his trachea, but we were able to successfully care for him. It was a stressful case, but will good teamwork and communication, he did well. He will have recurrent problems, but looked much better afterwards. We also had another patients with a similar disease who already had a tracheostomy who needed a followup procedure. It was not particularly straight forward either. I also had a patient who had GI surgery for congenital abnormalities, and a patient who swallowed a coin.
The rest of our team was at Cure doing ear surgery and seeing patients.
Tonight we had dinner at a local Ethiopian restaurant Yod Abyssinia with one of the local ENT surgeons. It is a large restaurant with traditional Ethiopian dancers and Injera bread (a pancake like thin, rolled bread) with many many toppings which are like stews. It is hard to describe, but hopefully the pictures and movies give you some idea.
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