Before it happened

No point digging into the past, it may turn out I was link to a serial killer or cult leader. The week was certainly a difficult one for me. First the chest pain, then the ichy feet, then the szzzzzzzz, then the zzzzz, then the adrenaline rush. But before all this, there was ping point. Yes, ping pong, I have played it before but I was never sure about the rules. Now I got this zzzzzouching me about ping pong and I m getting better everyday. Can't tell if its just natural talent or natural selection....natural selection in that her zzzzz her is motivating me to be better to impress zzzzzzzzz. LOLOL

This week I was in ward round every morning. Of course I am not a medical student, I am just a zzzzzz, although to be fair I have taken some lower level undergrad pre med courses. Wow.....ward rounds. Kids who are crazy, kids who are malnourish, and adults with gapping wound infections in her foot. A technique that I have never seem done before and now I can claim to have seem it in action. We had a diabetic woman with a foot infection. The foot stank, and not just cause it s a foot. It was necrotic...rotting tissue. Antibiotics and bandaging didn't halt the infection. So a young doc suggested using sugar..yes granulated sugar (sucrose) to pack the wound and the sugar will kill the bacteria and heal the wound. The idea behind this is osmotic action, sugar being ionic in high concentrations will dehydrate the bacteria cells, killing them.

Of course only in Uganda will you find this or not. Look, in a developing world hospital, western medicine can't be practice fully. So more creative and resourceful approaches must be sought. Sugar in a wound...in a diabetic patient of all peoples. Well it could folk lore or a pipe dream of really works...but I don't know. Well, the injury was located inthe foot and it was already oedemic and getting poor circulation, no way the sugar would have affected the diabeties. So yeah, again I got to observe a minor sugar as it going on. Although no cutting this time...just plenty of poking and protting and stuffing.

So what does this have to do with IT and computers and Netcorp and network. Well, as I said, I am not a smart med student yet, so I needed to play to my strength. Armed with a laptop during the ward round, and with internet connection, I can literally access anything I didn'
t understand and read up on things. Yes, the laptop was my textbook and the world wide web my library. Now I can actually have a chance to keep up with new words and definitions and diseases and other medical stuff right on the fly.

Once I get network coverage to everywhere in the hospital, time to learn medicine and fulfill my secondary objectives for my placement in Bwindi, Uganda. Now if only I can stop this chest pain. Apparently the metaphor is not just a metaphor. Think I can zzzzzzzzzzzzin the end?