Day 99

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Well today was another interesting day.

This morning Trixy was in a meeting for about an hour so we started seeing patients thinking she would only be at tops 20 minutes, but she was definitely more than that. The first patient we saw had blood in his urine, so we took a history and physical and then went to find Trixy. We told her we wanted to do a Urine Analysis along with a Sediment spin down and she said that would be alright. We told the patient we spoke with Trixy and that was alright. The next patient  (not for little ears) we saw was having problems with having an erection and keeping his erection. We again did a history and physical. We went out of the room thinking Trixy would be back shortly, but she was taking to long so we just decided to have him do some lab tests. We had him do diabetes, HIV and urine analysis, I think that was it, but another problem he has uncontrolled HTN.

When Trixy got back she looked at what we did and was fairly content. She then did an echo on the patient with blood in the urine to take a look at his bladder, unfortunately she didn’t find anything in the echo. We saw many more patients but I don’t remember all of them, but it was a busy day. We had a few echos to do as well.

To be honest the only other thing that I really remember today was the lady that had a miscarriage. I’m not sure how far along she was, but she wasn’t extremely far along. She came in and was in a lot of pain, so we sent her to the lab to do a malaria test. Poor thing not only had to go through having a miscarriage, but she also had malaria. Trixy went in and started removing blood and the placenta that was coming out of the uterus. She kept pulling blood and placenta out until it wouldn’t come anymore. The last thing she pulled out was a big chuck about the size of an egg. We took it into the other room and she showed me it. You could see the gestational sac and the placenta, you could also see where the pregnancy implanted into the uterus, it was very interesting to see it, but very heartbreaking.

The lady who had the molar pregnancy came back today and had confirmed her complete mole pregnancy, which means there is no embryo. The patient decided to go back to America to have the mole removed. I think that was the best thing to do, I think she will be back for about 3 months to measure the hormone levels for a while to make sure everything is alright. Please continue to pray for her and her family as they travel back home and as she has the mole removed.

After work today, I worked on my project. We had bible study and then went down to the hospital to talk with the patient that was in there, he decided to head home, so we visited with him and then discharged him from the hospital. When we finished with that we went and said goodbye to Trixy. Went up and went to bed.