My dreams

I can't believe that this journey is over .It has been 7 months since I started working with the little ones . I must say , it was a wonderful experience . I have learnt a lot in my rotations in pediatrics .

I have been reminded that a mother love is one of the best in the world . I have seen mothers not giving up and abandoning their babies no matter the condition ,that is unconditional love .It made me have a stronger bond with my mother because it reminded me of the days when I was young and I could get very sick . I was the "sick " one in the family ,and I think that was  one of the factors that motivated me to be a doctor . I pray that I should be loving and caring to my children like my mother was to us .  Love you Mum .

I have seen some mothers abandoning their sick children , it would break my heart to see that after carrying a child for 9 months and suffering they would just bail out on their children . In Africa we do not take post partum depression seriously because we have been raised to believe that a woman's responsibility is to take care of her children  no matter what .
I think this is an issue which we have to take into  serious consideration because I have seen cases where a mother doesn't want to hold her child after birth but she is forced to.Later the child is abandoned or dumped in a pit latrine .
Life is indeed so unfair , some women  are doing unbelievable things, eating things that's they are not supposed to eat like fecal matter and other herbs because a herbalist told them to for them to conceive .Then there are those who are pregnant and don't want to have a child . Life can not be understood sometimes anyway .

I have worked with wonderful people and mean people too . I am thankful for the mean people who pushed me out of my comfort zone to make me work harder and do better . It taught me to grow and realise that not all people use the same approach to teach you . The colleagues who were patient with Me , thank you .

I am an intern and internship is a learning process , there is still more to learn because medicine is complex and u learn new things every day . I will not be afraid when I have kids as patients somewhere is Shang'ombo or Kashikishi , you know why ? Because I learned from the best ! Bye Pediatrics