Cat hospital

Poor poor Ginger kitty. She's sick and needs a doctor. Good thing we have one in the house. Here she is in action.

What are we up to?

Any guesses what the Floreks are up to? Those of you who already know, it's not fair for you to guess. So I suppose we'll just have to tell you all now.

We're going to Ethiopia! Well, we are 90% sure we're going to Ethiopia anyway! We're packed and ready to go, just waiting for our visas to be processed and then we'll buy plane tickets and we'll be off! We've had more than a few speed bumps in the process, so we won't be certain we're actually going until we step foot off the plane onto Ethiopia soil (or cement?).

As part of our residency program we have the opportunity to do a one month international rotation during both our second and third years. Since we want to work in Africa long-term, what better place to go during one of these elective months than Africa?! We are going with an organization that we are interested in partnering with for our long-term plans called SIM (Serving in Mission). You can check them out at http://www.sim.org/.

We will be spending most of our time in the capital city, Addis Ababa. We will work at an HIV clinic and do home visits with them, spend a few days at a CURE Hospital (http://cure.org/hospitals/ethiopia/), visit the Addis Ababa fistula hospital (http://www.fistulafoundation.org/), hopefully visit some of the orphanages nearby, and work at the SIM clinic. We are also going to be in a smaller, rural village called Langano, near Lake Langano (google it for some pictures). There we are going to be participating in a medical course focused on low-resource settings and then working in the clinic seeing a wide variety of patients. We've been told we'll see malaria, malnutrition, worms, infections of all types, deliveries, and a whole host of other things. There is also a baby home there that takes care of orphaned babies where Charlotte and Kristi hope to spend some time.

Yep, we're bringing Charlotte with us! She hasn't been on a trip like this before, and we're so excited to experience it all with her. Stay tuned for lots of good stories when we get back!

Forgotten?

Did everybody think we forgot about our blog? Maybe nobody is reading this any more because we haven't written anything in so long.

We haven't forgotten. We haven't even been that busy. I don't know why we haven't kept up on our blog.

But we have something to write about now, so we'll try to put that up later tonight or this weekend, so stay tuned....