Birds, cows, children & villagers........

Today was a great day!!! I was teaching one of the other techs how to embed tissue. He did a great job!! One thing I notice here is that they are so willing to learn and do. I then did some cutting of the tissue and got it stained so that the blocks and slides will be ready to come back home with me and brought to the Brigham to be diagnosed.

After I had cut the slides I went into histo to change the stainer. I moved a basket that was on the floor and almost had a heart attack!!! A little lizard went running across my foot and under the counter!! I ran out to get Gaspard!! I'm such a chicken when it comes to lizards...... But sure I'll sit on the ground 5 feet away from a silver-back gorilla!!!! As I like to say " that's different"!!! 

At lunch I strolled around the grounds of the hospital and took more pictures.

I watched Gaspard do some grossing of tissue that had come in today. One specimen was a breast nodule that was from a woman younger than me! Very sad....more than likely it is cancer. Butaro hospital has a cancer care unit and  they are succeeding in getting people the treatment. The nurse, Ann, who came from Dana Farber is here to teach the nurses about and how to give the treatments. One of the other specimens was from a prisoner in a jail. It was a brain tumor that was removed. It was smaller than a golf ball, but good size!! I have to say it was the ugliest specimen I have ever seen!!!

Every night when I get home, I love to sit out on the porch and just enjoy the view!!! It is a time for reflection and thought. I love the sounds of the cows mooing, the people talking, and the birds making some of the wildest noises I have ever heard!!! The sounds seem to travel up from the valley below.I will miss that when I leave. To be home listening to Memphis & Angus bark is a sound that I deeply miss and can't wait to hear. I miss Rudy & Rory trying to get up my lap before Memphis chases them away. I miss the sound of Rudy sucking on his tail!! I miss my fur babies!! Angus is going to have surgery on June 5.... He has a torn ACL and meniscus. Bill said the little man is depressed and probably in pain. Makes my heart break. Hopefully after his surgery it will all be better for him. He loves to play ball and just roam around the yard, and it something he has been unable to do.

I miss my husband!! He is my best friend and means the world to me.....

Well I'm very tired tonight and we have a lot to do tomorrow......

Thanks for following!!!

Love to you all!!

Goodnight!!!

P.S. the bugs are big!!