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kwankew
Dec 18, 2014
Screening for Ebola? Would the Person with Ebola Please Stand Up?
Appearing in public now after a period of quarantine seems a little strange, some people avoided me, some stood at a distance when...
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kwankew
Dec 12, 2014
Reflections
I volunteered in the Ebola outbreak because I could not see myself staying at home when there was and still is a real need for healthcare...
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kwankew
Dec 10, 2014
The Suakoko Leper Colony: The Stigmatization of an Ancient Disease
At the entrance to the jungle where the ETU is, a huge sign for the Bong ETU towers over and dwarfs the old sign for the Suakoko Leper...
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kwankew
Dec 7, 2014
Idle but Peaceful Days of Quarantine
Day 17 of the 21-day quarantine. A few days ago someone was admitted to MGH for possible Ebola, there was no further identification. At...
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kwankew
Dec 3, 2014
Any Room for Forgiveness?
Yesterday I heard a story on NPR about “One Village’s Story: How Ebola Began and How it Ends”, the name of one of the patients I took...
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kwankew
Nov 25, 2014
The White House Holiday Open House Invitation and the State “Quarantine”
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health contacted me regarding the issue of the 21-day quarantine. This entails direct active...
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kwankew
Nov 23, 2014
Screening at the Washington Dulles Airport
I am really looking forward to going home especially to see my kitten, Grisela or Gri or Kuchi Kuchi Ku, my nickname for her. She was a...
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kwankew
Nov 22, 2014
Monrovia
Having been getting up early in the morning in Bong, I woke up early in Monrovia. It has been raining during the night. Being wide...
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kwankew
Nov 21, 2014
Leaving Bong with a Heavy Heart
It is amazing how in a span of six weeks, one begins to get attached to the people one works with and the place. Saying good-bye to the...
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kwankew
Nov 20, 2014
It Is Well with My Soul
Last day rounding in the ETU. In the Suspected Ward, three-year-old Nowai lost her parents to Ebola. Bendu who is an Ebola survivor took...
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kwankew
Nov 19, 2014
“The Significance of the Life We Lead”
Surprisingly Aaron is still with us but remains essentially unresponsive, no longer capable of groaning. He has a catheter now for his...
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kwankew
Nov 18, 2014
A Grueling Twenty-Four Hour Day
Fifth night in the ETU. There was a schedule change which I had not been informed but I happened to see the schedule lying around. ...
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kwankew
Nov 17, 2014
Screaming in Pain
It seems here in Bong County, Ebola continues to create havoc. I have been on night shifts now for four nights and saw Aaron being...
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kwankew
Nov 16, 2014
The Silence of the Night
WHO reports that the number of new Ebola cases have decreased in Lofa and Montserrado counties in Liberia. President Ellen Johnson...
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kwankew
Nov 14, 2014
The Valley of the Shadow of Death
I am on night shift tonight. In the early morning before my night shift, my roommate came back from her shift feeling weighed down by...
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kwankew
Nov 12, 2014
In Loving Memory of the Baby
Finally a day off after ten straight days of working, it just so happens that today is my birthday. Imagine my surprise when I opened my...
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kwankew
Nov 11, 2014
A Birth in the ETU
Before we started rounding, someone called out from the ETU to say that pregnant Watta just aborted. When we got into the ETU, Watta was...
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kwankew
Nov 10, 2014
Surrounded by Human Sufferings
Krubo who came here with three of her children, lost her second child early this morning, little Fatu who was wandering around two days...
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kwankew
Nov 9, 2014
Orphaned
More deaths today. Almost ninety percent of the patients in the Confirmed Ward now are from a single village. Pie died while her...
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kwankew
Nov 8, 2014
Death of a Child
Seventeen-month-old Jackson, son of Fatu, spiked a fever and was readmitted to Suspected Ward to test for Ebola. He was initially tested...
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