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Screening at the Washington Dulles Airport
I am really looking forward to going home especially to see my kitten, Grisela or Gri or Kuchi Kuchi Ku, my nickname for her. She was a...
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- Nov 21, 2014
Leaving Bong with a Heavy Heart
It is amazing how in a span of six weeks, one begins to get attached to the people one works with and the place. Saying good-bye to the...
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kwankew
- Nov 20, 2014
It Is Well with My Soul
Last day rounding in the ETU. In the Suspected Ward, three-year-old Nowai lost her parents to Ebola. Bendu who is an Ebola survivor took...
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kwankew
- Nov 19, 2014
“The Significance of the Life We Lead”
Surprisingly Aaron is still with us but remains essentially unresponsive, no longer capable of groaning. He has a catheter now for his...
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kwankew
- Nov 18, 2014
A Grueling Twenty-Four Hour Day
Fifth night in the ETU. There was a schedule change which I had not been informed but I happened to see the schedule lying around. ...
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kwankew
- Nov 17, 2014
Screaming in Pain
It seems here in Bong County, Ebola continues to create havoc. I have been on night shifts now for four nights and saw Aaron being...
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kwankew
- Nov 16, 2014
The Silence of the Night
WHO reports that the number of new Ebola cases have decreased in Lofa and Montserrado counties in Liberia. President Ellen Johnson...
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kwankew
- Nov 14, 2014
The Valley of the Shadow of Death
I am on night shift tonight. In the early morning before my night shift, my roommate came back from her shift feeling weighed down by...
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kwankew
- Nov 12, 2014
In Loving Memory of the Baby
Finally a day off after ten straight days of working, it just so happens that today is my birthday. Imagine my surprise when I opened my...
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kwankew
- Nov 11, 2014
A Birth in the ETU
Before we started rounding, someone called out from the ETU to say that pregnant Watta just aborted. When we got into the ETU, Watta was...
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kwankew
- Nov 10, 2014
Surrounded by Human Sufferings
Krubo who came here with three of her children, lost her second child early this morning, little Fatu who was wandering around two days...
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kwankew
- Nov 8, 2014
Death of a Child
Seventeen-month-old Jackson, son of Fatu, spiked a fever and was readmitted to Suspected Ward to test for Ebola. He was initially tested...
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kwankew
- Nov 7, 2014
This Too shall Pass
Peter passed on early this morning not long after he asked me for water. He was the man with the hiccoughs. None of his relatives could...
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kwankew
- Nov 6, 2014
The Untouchables
Yesterday the long-awaiting departure of Naomi and her daughter, Josephine, from the ETU finally took place, free of the infection at...
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kwankew
- Nov 5, 2014
All the Perfumes of Arabia
Sadly close contacts with Ebola without protection begets more Ebola. The mothers and children of the two families that we admitted last...
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kwankew
- Nov 4, 2014
The Hiccoughs
It seemed all hell broke loose last evening when we arrived for the night shift. One of our night duty nurses was asked to switch to day...
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kwankew
- Nov 3, 2014
“Like Moths to a Flame”
Last night I reverted to doing night duty. With deaths and discharges, the census was down. The ambulance crew does not go out on...
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kwankew
- Nov 1, 2014
Cuttington University and Gbarnga
A rare day off. We live on the campus of Cuttington University which is emptied of students because of the Ebola outbreak. It is one of...
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