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Index to Mar-A-1
“Medical Mission to Malawi—II”
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The first of
March in Malawi: a Friday full of the kinds of
daily events that a tropical rainy season day
can produce, with a few cases thrown in.
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Cover letter
to the messages sent out from arrival in Malawi
to the March 1, dramatic case of a dying 18-year-old
mother of a three-week-old child, as mother suffers
volvulus with dead bowel; Message sent to Lilongwe
on disc with Elizabeth’s departure from Embangweni,
March 2, 2002. [+]
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A bright Saturday
morning run precedes Elizabeth’s departure with
Kennedys to Lilongwe, bearing a disc of my “Messages
from Malawi” to date, as I continue with rounds
and a visit to the paramount chief tragedy at
midnight: the expected outcome of the infarcted
gut and the loss of a young mother find myself
in C-section city, hard at work to deliver more
surviving Malawians. [+]
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Sunday on Embangweni Station, going from
church to making rounds and finding myself again
in high-risk obstetrician status with a 16-year-old
primip breach given native herbs by the ngongo—for
yet another C-section. [+]
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Martyrs’ Day Holiday Celebration: An early
morning run (making a week straight in the African
dawn!), rounds to discover a man caught “pinching
cassava” in the famine, and beaten to the point
that he will not walk again, and the Grand Celebration
at Ephangweni, the Nkosa’s village, of the traditional
“Ngoma” dance by Bwekawaka Jere’ troop, and the
Tikoleraneko singing and drama group performance
for AIDS control; a holiday visit to our host,
the dying 82 year-old Nkosa Mzukuzuku Jere.
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My final operating day at Embangweni Hospital,
with several cases after my morning run, and a
ululating cry from Maternity after our morning
report heralding and unwelcome surprise; I try
to pack what little will leave Malawi as I am
getting “short” in my time here. [+]
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My final African
dawn run and the farewell ceremony for me at Embangweni
Hospital, the long drive down the “M-1” to the
capital, Lilongwe, the arrangements for the Poehlmans’
Safari to Uvuu through Wilderness Safaris, and
the evening in the Baptist Guest House in Lilongwe
before Malawi Departure. [+]
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Departing Malawi and separating from my
safariing friends, as I go from Lilongwe through
Nairobi to Amsterdam and then return on the long
haul home—for the barest of breaks before departure
for Cuba! [+]
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The cover note
I may be able to send from Lilongwe if I am lucky
enough to get the third internet connection attempt
in Lilongwe to fill in the Malawi experiences
as I near departure. [+]