It’s the 1st of January 2015 at around 8.00a.m and I’m lazing on my bed in Machakos. My mum walks in to wake me up and immediately after wishing her a happy new year I ask her if there are any PPI’s (antacids) in the house. I was bloated, having serious GERD, hyperacidity and was convinced […]
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For the first time I almost slapped a patient’s mother. Yeah, that’s right . I was told that i was heard quarreling. I was livid. A very young girl was giving me a history of having been raped 4 times over 4 months by a person well known to her but the mother was not
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I’m sitted in my ‘usual’ seat at the ’10-sitter’ proboxes on my way to work in the ‘wilderness’. I hear on the radio the advertisement on the ‘C’ word that has been going round for a long time. The preaching on contraceptive use among the youth and especially teenagers. I get thinking during the one
A very busy Monday morning and my moods are swinging dangerously because I’m not used to having so many patients at a go. The rainy season had made me lazy because I would see a maximum of 10-15 patients in a day. With the brief rain detour, the grading of the roads by the county
My week kicked off well, but at a rather slow pace thanks to the rains. I admitted several children with snake bite related injuries and it literally gave me goosebumps at every instance. They say the snakes come out to the houses and the roads to get some warmth and avoid the extreme cold during
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