Surgery

One of the perks of being on a hospital ship is that we are able to observe surgery! What an awesome experience! Especially since I don't get to work with the hospital very much it was really cool to see what the ship does in West Africa.
The first surgery I saw was Dr. Gary Parker with a facial tumor removal.  The man had a tumor removed in 2010 by a local hospital.  Unfortunatly it grew back and so today Dr. Gary opened his face and removed the rest of the tumor and reconstructed his cheek bone.  It was pretty amazing.  When i entered the room the mans face was opened up and i could see like all the insides of his face...there was lots of blood.

Dr. Gary is amazing.  He explained a lot about how the surgery worked, how the man would look after.  It was quite informative.

The second surgery I saw was with Dr. James and (i don't know the other surgeons name...).  The lady had an abdominal hernia.  Pretty darn interesting.  It was 12 centimeters so they had to insert a 'patch' to help the hernia not come back.  

So today was a pretty exciting day.  I checked off another thing on my African bucket list!   The days are slowly ticking by.  Thank you everyone for your prayers.
Please, pray for the hospital on the ship.  We are very understaffed.
Love to all and lots of hugs!