Finishing Strong

There is a friend of mine who always tries to make sure that he ends a project with at least as much enthusiasm as he started it. He likes to say he wants to “finish strong”. A good attitude. I am hoping I can achieve this in my final 24 hours here. Trying to have plans in place for all the patients I am
leaving behind, and thanking everyone here for making me feel at home even though I am a “Short Termer”. Did you know they consider anything under 2 years to be short term? Doesn't sound like it to me. I am also on call today, so we will see how my night goes. There may be some last minute hand over rounds Wednesday morning. I must admit, I will not miss the 0500 call to prayers. I have not needed an alarm clock the whole time I have been here. They are even up before the roosters! I suppose it is like living beside the train tracks, after a while you get used to it.

On rounds today I was able to make some plans for the patients I am leaving behind. Christopher has the list of patients and it should help with the transition. I also spoke to Joe the General Surgeon, and he is happy to look after the complicated surgical cases. We had a bit of a debrief of my time here, and it was good to put it in perspective.

I will leave a few things behind. Some clothing, some personal
OR stuff, and of course a lot of friends. Several times the question has come up as to whether I will return, and I would like to. There are some things that I would need to have better organized at home to be able to do this.

This may well be my last blog, as I have 2 travel days after this, so if it is, I hope you the reader enjoyed it. It is my first time bogging (as I said at the very beginning), and I learned some things about it along the way.

Someone just posted some videos of Galmi Hospital here:

https://vimeo.com/user45679319

2 Timothy 2:15

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

PS: I am going back - look here: