Surgery Time!

My uncle Bill is one of the teaching doctors at Evangel Hospital in Jos. He is a very experienced surgeon who has been living and working in Jos for over 16 years. For about 3 or 4 days I was able to follow him around, observe surgery, and even “scrub in” on a few cases!

I absolutely loved it and soaked in as much as I could! I saw umbilical hernia repairs, bladder stone removal, a forehead tumor removal (it was the best!), the end of a prostatectomy, the removal of a needle in a little boy’s foot (it went in with the dull end first), and a tendon repair/fracture repair on a man’s hand. It was such a cool experience and helped to confirm my interest in the medical field.

Here are some cool pictures for those with strong stomachs:

Hospital Entrance

Time for some serious surgery!

Oh yeah, massive tumors in the head.

This is what they pulled out!

Herniated umbilicus

I actually scrubbed in on this one...tendon repair and pin in fractured metacarpal

Tiny tiny baby!

Hausa Phrase of the Day:

“Gajiya ta bi lahiya.”

“Tiredness follows health.”

(It means that if you’re tired it’s a good thing because you’re healthy enough to work and get tired out. So it’s a way to be positive in responding to the greeting “How is your tiredness?”… when you are really beat and tired after a long day!)