The heart the size of a human head!!

Day 5
I won't go on about medical stuff for too long, but their was an amazing case that came in of cardiomegaly ('big heart'), but it is soo big its the size of a head. On the chest x-ray you can hardly see any lung and you can palpate (feel) it way into his abdomen!!
Well for the medical boffins - the cause?
Well he has a few medical problems: Congestive heart failure, liver cirrhosis (failure) due to alcoholism and he is HIV positive as well!! Not so great for the patient.

The cultural divide is quite different to the UK too, because alcohol is frowned upon, this man was left in a room on his own and treated quite poorly and is due to be kicked out of the Hospital, because he used to be an alcoholic. Can you imagine patients in the UK being treated like that because they drink and smoke - the wards would have hardly any patients!

Anyways, I was in clinic this morning and a lady came in with her gorgeous daughter who was about 3 years of age. I started playing with her and the Doctor translated and said that the mother wanted me to take her back to England with her!! She was being really serious too!
The Ghanian's are very lovely and welcoming people and obviously being White in a Black world I stand out a bit. I get calls and salutes and the children just giggle and shout 'aunty Lucy' (they call all the White women 'aunty') or 'odami'. But I have been told that they see White people and immediately think of money and a better life.......

Don't worry Danny I won't be bringing any babies home with me - don't think I will be able to get children through passport control and customs unfortunately!

Love to all

Lucy x x x