Day 4 in Addis

Well, sort of a mixed day for us.
What was good
1.  rounds in the premie room with the residents.  They seem bright and caring.
2.  lunch at the Ambassador Park restaurant.  We had to be frisked to get into the park.  Lunch was delicious and cheap.

Lasagna, Chicken with Rice and two bottles of water for 116 birr (about $8.50)

Our placemat

the restaurant from our seat

the park outside

another view of the park

Lots of interesting people were eating around us.  The walk there was our first time away from the "shelter" of the hospital grounds unaccompanied.  We are getting braver!  On the way out of the restaurant, we met an Ethiopian man who is here from San Francisco.  He has been here for four years working on getting public libraries started.  We didn't have our local phone so we are going to call him.  Then perhaps we will arrange a time to meet.
3.  an earlier walk to try once again to find a converter
4.  student grand rounds about one of the NICU cases, a baby with gastric perforation that we saw
5.  Are rides were both on time on the way and the way back.  The rides are remarkable--the insane traffic, everyone walking, the shops, school children, pollution.
6.  another nice run this morning around the Red Cross compound.  There were several other runners here awaiting the aerobics class.  One ran behind me for a while.

Other things.
There was no water in the NICU for washing.  They brought in a large tub of water for us.  Also the oxygen tanks ran dry while we were rounding.  There seemed to be other problems with the air flow as well for a couple of babies as we were rounding.

The baby with Down's looked quite ill today.  I think he really is septic, unlike most of the other ones we saw.  I won't be surprised if he is not there tomorrow.

Still no converter and the device we saw in our office is not a converter as I had thought.  So Cindy is still charging my devices with her converter.  Thank goodness.

We are still holding on to the books we brought.  I was able to give the bilirubin meters to "Wendy" the resident who has been working on building a phototherapy unit.  Cindy's oxygen probes are still at the airport.  We created a fake hospital stationery by opening an email attachment, then taking a snapshot of the logo and pasting into a word file.  That was so we could write that the probes are a donation.  Now we are awaiting a second letter from Tikur Anbessa.