SELFLESS LOVE

So now guys, we come to the Easter season. Let's pose for a moment and ponder on the thought that He Gave up His only son so that we may be saved. He died to save us from eternal condemnation. As we take a break from the busy life(well, those of us who are lucky enough to), let us be thankful to God and just take time to whisper a prayer, for ourselves, for our families and even our friends. I get to spend like five full days with my children and family, I will miss him...but he is with us in spirit....(sob, sob).

So today we were in theater, doing a tuboplasty operation. This lady is married for the last three years, has tried in vain to get children with no luck whatsoever. Husband  has been subjected to all manner of tests (even the closed door one,magazines...dudes you know what I mean) with no baby in sight! So all her hope lay in us as we went in to do some "magic" and grant her her wish! So in we go, scalpel in hand, methylene blue dye in another, retractors, sutures the full battalion!

What we get is just heart wrenching to say the least. Her tubes are thickened, tortous, with so many adhesions we couldn't possibly tell what lay where and when! her uterus is small and 'fixed' adhesions all over the place, her ovaries a mixed mish mash of tissue and more adhesions!

How many  times have we sat back and truly thanked God for the little things we have? I jokingly call my kids brats, but how many people out there are struggling to just give forth a new life to just nurture and watch grow? am left with the difficult task of letting this lady know that she needs to look for other options of getting a child(IVF and the like which is like un-affordable) or adoption(Quite another challenging option).

So ladies, gentlemen seek treatment for those discharges that come every so often for some or once in a lifetime in others, you could just save yourself and your future progeny! God gave his only son for us, Do you appreciate the chance he has given you in raising your kids...current and future ones?

Blessed Easter!

OF SEXY THINGS

So today I went to this symposium and all the big shots in Obstertrics & Gynecology were there. There was lots of new stuff to learn, controversial things to discuss and of course the usual hobnobbing! What struck my attention today was this very sexy, 6inch, red stiletto heels!!! I could sell my soul(well...almost) to have tried that shoe, but alas, it was an ad from a drug company, advertising well....a DRUG!!! That to me was one very creative way to do it and of course it will be imprinted in my memory for a really really really long time so guess that particular company will get quite a large number of prescriptions from me!!

That ad got me thinking, I have this black and red very little item of clothing I own and every time I put it on, I feel very sexy and no one and nobody could take away that feeling from me all day. I walk tall, I feel good, tingly all over, I have a certain swing in my stride, a lilt in my voice, I love it!!

So ladies, (well, do men experience this???) what one thing or two or three give you that instant sexy feeling?

12hour shift!

So yesterday I was working this twelve hour shift in Gynecology outpatient. I don't really fancy this shift, one the room is sooo small and stuffy and ventilation is a rumour. So I start off the morning on a slow note, I quite don't feel excited about this day one bit. Along enters a young girl, 24years of age with bleeding and she is just 7 weeks pregnant, this is her first pregnancy and her husband works in Nakuru. I explain to her that this looks like a threatened miscarriage or even an ectopic pregnancy and we need an urgent ultrasound scan to see what is happening, she listens through this quite calmly until I finish then the poor young lady starts crying and tells me she can't lose this baby! Amid her sobs and my words of comfort to her I think back about conception and life. 67% of all pregnancies are lost before a woman even notices!!50% of these occur early in the first trimester and appear just as a menstrual period though heavy, the rest a little later and cause untold grief to the expectant women. So this goes out to all of us, we are the surviving 33%, and to all the would be mothers who it didn't happen, one day it will and you will beget a life!

I saw a full grown man cry, his mother had come from a rural area and the doctors there had told the son that the lady required specialised care in a tertiary hospital. On examination and from the referral note that she was carrying (which was stuffed in a several dirty black paper bags which also had her xray films, ultrasound scans, previous prescriptions-I think of us women and our handbags!) I figure out that she has a malignancy, source unknown. Previous surgery of the abdomen, several masses were biopsied. After I examined her, her cervix looked suspicious and abdominal findings, her ovaries felt big. I had to break it down to this son that the mother has CANCER(the dreaded word) and we needed to work her up thoroughly so as to take the next course of action. What he did next humbled me to my very core, he sat down and prayed........for like five minutes and I could hear him call out to the Almighty then he looked at me and there were tears flowing down his face. To all those suffering from whatever form of cancer, pink/ purple ribbons, My aunt Selina, today I say a prayer for you, The Almighty is all caring, all knowing and we will lean not on what we know but wait upon Him for Healing.

I miss him, but I also like this feeling because it means that the love is still strong and fresh! Goood day People.

NEW KID ON THE BLOCK

So now I have my own blog, I feel like this is the coolest thing to happen so far!! Hoping to have a great time at it and put all my literal talent to test! Let's do this!!!