Gblah
In your head right now if you were to say the above name out loud how would you say it?
So did I. It was not until the patients started to giggle and than laugh out load did I know the "G" was silent.
Gblah, (silent G) turned up on the dockside with his mother and baby sister. Gblah is a very active four years old with bilateral club feet. His mother a courageous woman from the Northern part of Sierra Leone made her with two small children both unable to walk, Gblah strapped on her back and baby in arms. Gblah was an excellent candidate for the poinsetti program where the orthopedic team does a series of casting to correct the children's feet. As I carried Gblah up the gang way he pointed at things and seemed to be a very sweet, inquisitive child, we experienced a whole new side of Gblah when he needed to lie still to have the casts put on, we did succeed but not without being covered in plaster and a few sore muscles. After we were finished with Gblah I could not help but think how much heavier he would now be for his dear mom to carry. Gblah has now been back to the ship for his third set of casts each time with knees of the fiber glass almost worn out.