On Monday I officially became old. Sad times. What is not sad was spending the day on the beach lying in the sun and then all my malawian friends taking me out to dinner and buying me a massive chocolate cake...officially friends for life haha!
Now that I'm on Obs and Gyn things are totally different to they are in medicine. Its a brand new maternity department called the Ethel Mutharika Wing. Its absolutely massive but although its brand new the resources are still majorly limited (an emergency caesarean section which in the UK would take 7 minutes takes 30 here). I'm absolutely loving it though mainly because I have fallen in love (professionally!!) with the registrar - Ibe. He's from Nigeria and I generally follow him about like a puppy all day long wishing I was actually him (well black and a an obs and gyn god!).
Things I've achieved in my time on obs and gynae
1. Drained a huge amount of green pus from an abscess in a womans abdomen (and had to wash it off my crocs...win!)
2. Resuscitated a 32 week gestation newborn baby and it survived
3. Fallen in love with my reg.
On the tan front the arms are definitely less white than before but the legs are most definitely still ghostly. Bad times.
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