October 2024 Update

Greetings friends,      Thank you for caring about our neighbors and our family in Kijabe. This fall has continued to be an interesting time, with encouraging events like rebuilding from the floods and new families moving to Kijabe, and challenges like national strikes over education and healthcare. Continue below to hear a patient story, a libraryContinue reading "October 2024 Update"

2 years in Kenya

Surprisingly, we have been in Kenya for two years! Sometimes it still shocks us that we actually made the move, but mostly it's hard to imagine being anywhere else. The kids are aware that we are foreigners from the US, but to them America is where their grandparents live. We compiled a list of frequentlyContinue reading "2 years in Kenya"

June Update 2024

Greetings from a wet and chilly Kijabe! Yes, it is still raining, but we have lots of exciting news to share with you despite the damp weather.  https://youtu.be/8d5JeECsxI4 Don't feel like reading? You can watch the highlights right here! First and foremost, Emma is here! We are so grateful for a safe delivery and EmmaContinue reading "June Update 2024"

Landslide Update 2

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...

Landslide Update

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

Trip to Tenwek

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 massiveContinue reading "Trip to Tenwek"

Day Trip to Nairobi

Many have been curious about what it’s like going to the doctor in Kenya, so I thought I would share my day with you. Yesterday, I had my 32 week appointment with my OB in Nairobi; we just have a few more weeks until we get to meet our baby girl! There are many wonderfulContinue reading "Day Trip to Nairobi"

Healing with Fire

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 forContinue reading "Healing with Fire"