Wednesday June 11

I must be having a good time. I had to stop and think about the date. I did make it out for a run this morning. OK it wasn't a very long run but at least I was up early enough to manage it. Actually in the heat and humidity, it was raining, not too bad for a first time in months to go out. I made it back in time for breakfast with the team where we were fed Dutch style french toast. It was pretty good stuff and I gather none left by 10.00am.
I've been working with a retired OR nurse from Canada for the last 3 days and she is just great. I've been scrubbed all day and had yet more interesting cases including one more like the every day in the UK, a child with a bead in its ear!!
The last case of the day took five hours so lunch happened at about 4.45pm!!
The dining room here has an early lunch and early dinner so it's not unusual for OR staff to have meals plated up by their colleagues. I had that twice today and as I sit typing in this post I have a pager in my pocket - my turn for on call tonight.
There are opportunities to go from the ship to various projects in Monrovia and I have signed up to go out on Saturday morning to a Cheshire Home for the handicapped. The other options were a womens prison or an orphange...the Cheshire home won. Which church I go to on Sunday has been decided by which vehicle is going to the beach afterwards! Gosh, its's just so tough out here.
The laundry system works well. You simply book out a washing machine. There are one hour slots and the wash takes 40minutes. With 10 machines available for a good part of the day it's no problem finding a slot. Well, no doubt another interesting day tomorrow.