Wednesday

• attempting to dodge cow pies in the mostly dark first moments of light on the way to Team Prayer
• singing a bit of "it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor..." in the cool of the morning sunshine on the way home from Team Prayer
• an 18 month old kid in an unbuttoned onezie literally RUNNING (or toddling as most toddlers do) as fast as his little legs could carry him up the road to greet me as I walked to the health center.
• after I greeted and shook said toddlers hand, the chorus of the 1980's Celine Dion (?) hit whining from the neighboring Boda repair shop (it seemed particularly fitting after moving on from such a greeting):

Must have been love, but it's over now
Must have been love, but I've lost it somehow

• a thin woman, the middle rider of 3 adults on a motorcycle, clad in orange and yellow kitenge's, being helped off the boda and into the HIV clinic.
• best name of the week: Goodyear. 
  
• pushing a 200ml blood transfusion 10ml at a time through an IO needle...using gentle force to push blood right into a 2 year old's bone injecting it directly into his bone marrow.  Marveling with each syringe that this is even physically possible.  
  
• Baluku Thomas code team: Jennifer Myhre, MD (code team leader); Travis Johnson, MD (IO placement and ongoing site assessment consultant); Nathan Elwood, (MD in about 4 short years) (equipment supplier, procedure preper, limb stabilizer); Heidi Lutjens, RN (IVF/blood/drug pusher :) and dressing changer); Assusi Mildred, Nursing Officer (patient care idea source and IV attempts expert); Balijukya Wilson, ECN (IV placement master); Kalibatira Betty, NA (ward secretary).
• Celebratory sweet and sour pork dinner with FRESH SWEET CORN (from chez Clark!!), chilled chocolate pudding pie for dessert (thanks, mom!), and mojitos to top it all off...in celebration of Nathan and Sarah's grad school decisions (Sarah, we celebrated on your behalf, in your honor; you were in absentia but present in spirit for sure! Congrats again!).