Today it was so cold that I wore my long johns under my pants. Who would have thought it could be wet and cold here? Its as if the Seattle winter has followed me here.
Today we were told that the mother of the sick 3 month old did go to the traditional healer and the baby got 3 doses of muti. No one seems to know what was in the muti. Maybe it is a benign concoction of tree bark and tree leaves. Maybe it really did stop the bowels. The baby's condition has been the same all day. I think the gut is slightly less distended.
I had another meeting of my English class. Today, there were 6 women. One of the new pupils is also a former patient. Today I figured it all out. I had thought that the young woman, Martha, looked familiar, so today I asked her. Turns out we delivered her baby by C section back in January. She brought the baby, named Whitney, with her today to class. So while Martha took her practice exam, I baby-sat. At one point, I took the baby down the hall where some of the nurses were congregating. I had strapped the baby to
my back like a Shona woman would do. They fell out laughing when they saw me with the baby on my back. And made a few jokes about how quickly I had come to Zimbabwe and 'found' a baby.
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