--After months of increasingly intense preparations, we are officially on our way back to the Littoral Province in Cameroon. Tonight Joe and I are in a hotel in Phoenix, eager to be up in the morning to meet Carol and Sam Hosler, to check those big heavy bags in at Sky Harbor, and settle in for a long flight. We and our 12 bags will land in Douala at 7:10 pm December 28.
--We've been vaccinated against a host of tropical diseases, we have medications to ward off anything that gets past the vaccines, our bags have been weighed and reweighed many times to assure that we're really within the airlines' limits, we're armed with a generous supply of American toilet paper, permethrin, first aid supplies, vitamins, and 100# of prescription medicaments that we'll use in clinics. Joe and Sam will be our official photographers, Carol will help them with lots of go-fetchit tasks and hours of health teaching. We'll be working with a class of senior students from the Linfield College-Department of Nursing who will do health assessments with about 650-700 widows and orphans who are served by Women, Environment and Health (WEH). As a Nurse Practitioner, my role will be to treat the ailments identified by the students - all those generous gifts of money, vitamins, first aid supplies, etc. are about to be put to very good use.
--When the students return to Portland on January 26, Joe and I will join Njoke, Director of Heritage Tours-Cameroon for a month-long tour. Since we've decided to be volunteers here, we want to know a whole lot more about this country. I'm particularly hopeful that I will have the good fortune to meet Rev. Dr. Godlove Ngdongdeh with the Cameroon Baptist Convention-Health Board when we're in Bamenda - I did some e-mail consulting r/t psychotropic medications for him a couple of years ago.
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