Heidi took a well-deserved break one afternoon this week and we drove north-east with Elizabeth Faile to visit the escarpment near Nakpanduri. The escarpment is a long ridge that stretches west to east and on into Togo. Dr. Faile used to hike and camp here when he was a kid growing up in Nalerigu. Back […]
Photo of the Day
This kid was a student at the school run by Sankor Baptist Church in Wineba, Ghana. I took several shots of kids at the school with the chalk board as back drops. Some of the chalk boards had some great stuff written on them. One had an explanation of why germs were bad. Another had […]
Photo of the Day + Bonus Art/Math Lesson
In this image, Dr. Faile is checking out a little girl he is about to operate on. She had a large growth on the back of her head and he was figuring out how he was going to go about removing it. I really like the composition of this image because it (loosely) uses the […]
Skin Grafting (with slideshow)
This Thursday afternoon, I helped Dr. Faile with 2 skin grafts. Skin grafts are used to cover wounds or burns that have a large surface area. The graft is usually made from the patient’s own healthy skin, but sometimes synthetic or cadaveric skin is used. The skin graft provides a framework for the healing process, […]
Photo of the Day
I’ve been experimenting more with my photographs in the OR; trying different compositions and techniques. I posted a reflection shot a couple days ago and now have another interesting one that I like a lot. Heidi told me it might gross some people out since you can see an enlarged, bloody prostate in the shot. […]
Faces from a Funeral
On Wednesday I attended a funeral in the village of Gbandu with Elizabeth Faile. Going to events like this with someone who speaks the language and is a guest of honor is a huge break for me. Once I have been introduced as a friend I’m no longer just some random white guy snapping pictures […]
Photo of the Day – By Heidi!
I took the afternoon off yesterday and went hiking with Elizabeth Faile and William. I got my hands on the camera for the first time in a long while and took some photos. William told me this shot was worthy to be “photo of the day.” In it you can see the haze and red […]
Photo of the Day
I posted an interview a couple weeks ago with Kathy Van Bibber who volunteered as a music teacher at a local primary school. She worked at the Happy Child Learning Center most of the time but also spent some time at St. Patrick’s School, another primary school in town. This photo was taken at the […]
Cephalopelvic Disproportion (w/ slideshow)
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 […]