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Dear Friends
I am glad I have Katy with her high energy and propensity to communicate via blog like others breathe air. The last three days have been a bit of a blur. I have been taking call every other. I have no time then I am exhausted and go to bed then I have no time again. Katy has been giving you the gist of it.
The burden of intense pathology and patient care volume is
always at the edge of being overwhelming.
I have seen so
many things that I have read about but never seen in my 30 year career such as
a case of bowel perforation from typhoid fever. Hysterectomy after c-section. Multiple stillbirths, one from an abruption with a
uterus that was in a “bruised state”. Today I operated on a corneal ectopic pregnancy which
blew out the back and side of the uterus causing very near death bleeding. There have been too many cases to count
of cerebral malaria with seizures.
Gotta go to sleep.
More later
Katy has also been chief cook. We had spaghetti one night and today we ate rice corn and
canned peaches. It was
delicious!!!
Brad
We have been lifting you all up in prayer. We can't even imagine what you have been experiencing and pray that God would give you the strength you need to continue. It sounds like your rest is limited and that it has been emotionally overwhelming. Press on! Thank you for doing this and for using your talent in this way. May God bless you and bless all of the people you have been working with. Again, we lift you up in prayer!!
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Brad, your calling alone is an unspeakably noble and inspiring one; your undertaking in Niger, doubly so. To know you and those you have taken care of always is a blessing - and for what it's worth, before I met any of the Granaths, I really didn't use or think about the word "blessing." That is to say it has gathered significant weight in a short amount of time. And it is a word, I think, that has a particular way of shedding light - meaning not only to shed light in the expressional sense, where there is a divulging of truths (of which in this case, there has been an unprecedented amount for me); but also a literal sense, where there is an actual light perceived or felt sub- or preconsciously; there is, too a third and more abstract sense given, that with the gift of a true blessing, one has become lighter...that the weight of whatever one may be burdened with has at long last been shared, or better yet - vanquished. To say, feel, and truly mean that you are blessed, there is also an admittance of flawed character - that you have been given something you don't feel you deserve, and are now feeling real gratefulness (even harder to come by), plus something - if it were otherwise we'd all just be entitled! I am positive that I am not alone in these feelings - this blog alone is the published proof, and only a tally mark in a long pattern of reoccurring noble and inspiring events whereupon you and yours have touched peoples lives in such a highly positive way. I wish you and Katherine only the safest and happiest of travels.
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