week and hello from katie

Hi friends and family!
The plan for this blog is I am going to catch you up from where I left off last week Thursday, and then tell you about the plans for the rest of the week.
Friday, I went to surgery which was really great one of my top favorites so far. I watched two femur fractures, some pins put in a kids broken bones around his elbow, and a pin taken out of a femur that was getting infected (so the removal of what was put in a femur fracture from years ago). It was really nice because there were two doctors' rooms that I got to pop in and out of and the cool thing was they were both using different "techniques" I guess you could call it. One doctor was using a C-arm (x-ray-ish machine used to find the exact places of brokenness and smaller/less incisions are needed for this way) and then the other doctor was doing the typical way of opening it all up like usual to see it all. I am sure my dad can fill in all the rest of the details but thats the very basic explanation.
Saturday was lazy, slept in, did some laundry, read some of a book, went on a short walk. Yep just a detox day for me. Sunday we had church in the morning and then I walked to the top of Motigo, a small mountain/hill near Tenwek (which I think mom already said), and did our skyping! But yeah my weekend was very relaxed compared to mom's. I am just going to say because I don't think she did, she worked her butt off this weekend. No one is supposed to be on call 3 days in a row, and just on accident mom didn't know that. But she was truly wonder-woman of the hospital this weekend and everyone should know that.
Yesterday I went to PEDS which was alright but not my favorite, perhaps because I don't like it that there are really sick children, and also because a lot of the time they were talking in lingo, I totally could not figure out haha. Then today I went to opthomalogy which I liked a lot. It was cool to see them take blind peoples' cataracts out and put in new lenses so that in just a few days they will be able to see again. That too would be a miracle for the patients when they can see again (which I didn't get to see today, I only saw surgeries). The doctor said I have to eventually see a patient who has had their cataracts removed and can see again for the first time, and then I will definitely become an opthomalogist.
But that is it for now. We have two more days at Tenwek, which makes us sad now that we have finally gotten used to all the kenyan eccentricities we are leaving. We are going to go on a safari for two days with two of our guesthouse friends. Then we are going to go back to Nairobi from the safari and spend the day monday there before we fly back late at night. So if anyone knows anything fun to do in Nairobi let us know! But just as a heads up there might only be two more days of blogs because I do not know if we will have internet access at either of the two places we are staying after this. But just know we love you lots and can't wait to see and hear from you back in the states!