Surviving
Yes, as a privately owned medical centre, we seem to be coping and staying afloat, even after the tragic demise of my maverick, late boss. So, here we have been over the last several months thence, a health facility in the business of saving lives, ourselves desperately trying to survive amidst the realities of a harsh economic environment, bereft of our strongman - the boss - who held things in sway the way that only he could. We are still delivering newly born babies, managing medical condition after condition and yes, going ever so often to the surgical theatre, such as was the case today - a surgical skin grafting procedure in a young man with Sickle Cell Disease, with a huge ulcer on the sole of his left foot. It took many patient days for that ulcer to granulate , thus looking bleeding-red and ready for the donor skin to properly "take". Let's hope over the next several days that a good "take", it surely will. It's good to be back health-bloggi