THE LUGGAGE CAME!!!! (so did dr. Farmer)

After our awesome night with our housemates, we got up nice and early for Oral Surgery Theatre (which is the OR). It was really cool to see the prep, anesthesia, how they manage the operating room.  It was all very similar to things that we had seen in the States with a Ugandan twist; we particularly enjoyed the wardrobe.  When you enter the surgery ward, you take your shoes off and leave them at the door, change into hospital scrubs, and once you enter the surgery side you select boots to wear. 



Katie, Marc & Dan in our OR outfits!


Marc and Katie had to leave before the surgery started to meet Dr. Farmer and get him to campus for his lecture, but Dan got to stay and see an amazing jaw resection and reconstruction due to an ameloblastoma - there is a picture of the resected section of the mandible at the VERY bottom of this post for those medically/dentally oriented folks. Marc and Katie took Dr. Farmer to get some Indian food for lunch, which was AMAZING, and then made the trek to campus where he gave two lectures on Oral and Systemic health and Local anesthesia techniques.

After Dr. Farmer's lecture with students, the dean, and the president of the Uganda Dental Association.

The students and faculty really enjoyed the lecture and we discussed future collaborations in which we will hopefully be able to assist some Ugandan students in coming to visit UNC, as well as having our students spend more time at Makerere! When we came back to the guest house - WE GOT OUR BAGS!!!! We are all super excited to have clothes that we haven't worn for 5 days straight. We celebrated with a nice dinner at Mamba Point, and came back to hang out with Ellie, Deria, Ben and Nasa (he lives at the house, works there and keeps us all entertained) for the girls' last night. We said goodbye to the staff at Edge House today, and were sad to leave our little home.  We are heading out to the villages and our internet connection here is slow - we will add more pictures to this post when we get a better connection!

Posing with Nasa right before we left!

The resected mandible and the wire they were reconstructing it with!