http://www.flightofideas.co.uk/png Papua New Guinea Journal Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:51:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Later than intended I have anonymised the blog, at least to some degree. Anyone in the least bit familiar with PNG or the Lutheran Health Services will have little trouble in identifying the hospitals. I briefly considered a more substantial edit to further disguise the hospital but concluded that this ... http://www.flightofideas.co.uk/png/?p=59 I can tell you the exact moment everything changed. It was Saturday night and I was tired after a day of exploring caves whose entrances were holes in the riverbed and exits were behind waterfalls. I wanted to read a little but my book was too dense for my energy ... http://www.flightofideas.co.uk/png/?p=17 The morning of departure had come. My bags were piled up by the door; I had chosen the food to take with me to Amselhafen; I had given away some of my clothes to Eliza, the haus meri; I had even written about house-related topics that might be of interest ... http://www.flightofideas.co.uk/png/?p=16 My last patient at Eichel was dead when I first met him. A man in his mid-forties, he had been brought into the hospital with severe breathlessness and, in the short time that it had taken for the nurse to cross the corridor from the minor theatre-cum-emergency room to the ... http://www.flightofideas.co.uk/png/?p=15 The other day a gecko ran up the leg of one of the nurses during morning devotion. He reached down to brush it away causing the startled reptile to shed its tail and scamper away. I was amazed on two counts: firstly by the fact that the tail detached instantaneously, ... http://www.flightofideas.co.uk/png/?p=14