Sharing God's love through ENT healthcare in Kijabe, Kenya
It had been a dry week in Kijabe since our last update. Road work has continued, the water supply to the hospital has been restored, and things were getting back to normal.
Then two nights ago there was another mudslide, this time a kilometer south of our house- three are still missing, feared to have perished after being trapped by the mud. The Red Cross was…
Kijabe received 2.5 inches of rain last night, which has continued to fill the ravines uphill from the railroad tracks. Efforts to pump out the water have been hampered by the unstable ground- the teams were not able to reach the ravines this morning to continue. More landslides are expected, and people are being asked to evacuate
This past week I traveled to Tenwek at the behest of the new Kenyan neurosurgeon at the hospital. He had arranged for a visiting American neurosurgeon and myself to do two transphenoidal pituitary cases together to give him more experience. Tenwek is a mission hospital in Bomet, usually about 4 hours away. There were massiveContinueContinue reading “Trip to Tenwek”
https://youtu.be/cQ9jCeUgm-E Some quick thoughts about Easter here in Kijabe
We send our warmest greetings from Kijabe! It is summer time here and we are enjoying beautiful weather with the occasional rain, so it’s much more pleasant than the drought we were experiencing this time last year. We have lots of good news to share and hope you enjoy reading about everything that has beenContinueContinue reading “March 2024 Update”
Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.Hippocrates Medicine has come a long way from the days of Hippocrates, but his quote is a surprisingly accurate description of our modern treatment algorithm. Trade iron forContinueContinue reading “Healing with Fire”
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This year at Kijabe has been a beautiful season of growth for our family as we adapt to the daily routines of life in Kenya. Click on the video to hear about what we have been doing in this past year.
Sundays at Kijabe Hospital are usually limited to inpatient rounds, but every now and then there is decidedly more excitement. This past Sunday began early, the peaceful morning pierced abruptly by a WhatsApp message from the on-call general surgeon. A “mass casualty” had unfolded overnight, with three victims having facial trauma. I found that textContinueContinue reading “Call Day”
Among the hundreds of cases that I have done in Kenya so far, these few stood out. This patient had a glomus jugulare tumor, which is a tumor that arises from the skull base where the jugular vein exits the brain. The former ENT here removed the tumor a few years ago in a majorContinueContinue reading “Interesting Cases”
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