This past week, a young first time mom had been laboring for a long time without any progress. She was a small-framed woman and finally it was determined that she had a cephalopelvic disproportion, meaning that the baby’s head was too big to pass through the mom’s pelvis. I scrubbed in acting as scrub-tech and […]
A Message from God
PEOPLE… Don’t Spoil My Name.
Photo of the Day
I was shocked at the clarity and sharpness of this image when I got home and looked at it in full size – made me very happy!
Photo of the Day
I’ve been going in to more surgeries with Heidi and I’ve found that my macro zoom lens is really handy. I’ve taken many extreme closeups of procedures – but since most involve open wounds, blood, and body parts I’ve refrained from posting them on the site (not everyone can stomach the sight of an open […]
Photo of the Day
I’ll let Heidi explain what she was doing in this photo in a later post. It involved giving a man an injection in his spine to anesthetize him for a hernia operation. To me the important thing was that I liked the lighting and those green latex gloves she had on.
Photo of the Day
Back in college my brother-in-law Kenny educated me about the importance and constant presence of the primary colors in life. Ever since then, I see those building blocks of color everywhere. The operating room is no exception.
Photo of the Day
I was glad to snap this shot of a girl studying at a school (on a Saturday!) before she noticed me and turned around (when the boy in the background let her know I was there).
The Wangara Radio Man
When I visited the village of Wangara in July 2005 I took a photo of a man listening to a radio under a tree. Yesterday when I visited the village I found the same man under the same tree. He had a new shirt and a box of matches instead of a radio. I had […]
Baptisms in the Densu River
Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God – John 1:12 Before the baptisms we had a small worship service at Ebenezer Baptist church in city of Nsawam. The eight new Christians came from the surrounding villages to be baptized in […]