Friday

Up again early for breakfast and worship then we headed out to Siana Boarding School per a request of one of the head teachers there to check on some of their students. Seeing we had seen everyone in the village the day before we agreed to do Siana for a couple of hours. Not long after starting clinic a lady from a boma not far from the school came and got me to come to their boma and check on a lady that had been in labor for over 24 hours. Norbert and I grabbed some gloves and other items and headed by foot to her home. As we neared you could see the smoke coming out of the small fist size windows and doors - they had a very large fire going in the mud home to keep it warm (it was already very warm outside with the sun shining) Once our eyes adjusted to the darkness we could see her laying on the ground, she appeared to be in her 50's, this was her 6th or 7th child. We used a very dim flashlight that they had and Norbert examined her. The baby was not in the right position and he tried to move it, but was unsuccessful. He explained to them that he would need to do a vaginal examine but they refused - there was nothing else we could do, but tell them unless they got help from a hospital both the mom and the baby could die. Then we headed back to the clinic site to join the rest of the group.

After finishing up clinic we headed back into the park - only to come upon our leopard friend again, more cheetahs and lions. At 4:30 pm we took Norbert and Gordon to the Keekerok Airstrip in the park as they were flying back to the US. We watched them board their plane and then take off, before we headed out for our campsite.

After supper we sat by the fire and brought in the Sabbath by singing for about an hour. The stars would out and they hyenas and lions called - you could feel the peace of the Sabbath day!

kim