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Day 18: Today is for picture taking

We're taking clinic pictures today!


It's Sunday but I didn't go to church. I had a lazy day really. In fact maybe we all did. I know Dr Chris was threatening to get P-Alaxin to me from today but we bless God that there is NONE!!!! Hallelujah. Even Mini wants me to take it when he couldn't even complete his course with it when he had to take it...stuff broke him down the more sef.

I'm hearing that the lady who is asthmatic and who we had sent home about 2 weeks ago and re-sent home again some days ago; is still breathing Afikpo camp air!!! It is well.

By afternoon we had the photographer come and we took pictures, all clinic staff...well almost all because some people are not around.

I hear that Platoon 7 came 1st in football today. They played the finals with Platoon 1. TomTom went to support his platoon 1. Abeg they tried. I wanted them to win because their leader Gideon seems like such a good leader. Gideon can disturb us in the clinic oh, come to rant about us being given special treatment as we don't have to go for parade. He wants civil engineers like himself to also work during camp...don't worry Gideon, they'll soon start using you guys to build, eye go tear 🤣


Ah! Something happened today. For the second time we had persons rushed in because they fell while running from a snake. I hear the reptiles are out because of the bush burning. The first one was one time in or around Jamaica hall and it was in the leaves or so during makeup class for SAED. They stomped on themselves and so had some minor bruises and thankfully in both situations no one was bitten and the reptile killed. I thank God so much for that. This time the lady said she was peeing in the toilet/bathroom and saw it, waited for it to pass and then had to run (or so). She tripped outside while running. Sustained small bruises.
They had told us about reptiles though and the culture here as regards some.

OBS party was today. I hear Ore went for it but most of us didn't go. Maybe we were waiting for an official invite; lol! Jokes oh! We are all corpers. We did enjoy jams they played sha...that's good enough for me.
The Batch 'C' Stream 2 2019 clinic crew

Fubsy, D-i, Mini, TomTom (L-R your in-house docs)

Batch 'C' Stream 2 2019 clinic management/unit heads
(L-R,  Nursing, Dentistry, CMAC, Laboratory services, CMD, Physiotherapy, Pharmacy)

The crew more relaxed

Aniebiet and I

TomTom and I

Smallest crew member,
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