Sunday, March 7, 2010

Macadamia Nuts!


Franco picked up some macadamia nuts at a plantation run by a friend (of a friend) of his. He has around 150 trees, and each produced 15-20 kg of nuts per year. The downside is that they are VERY difficult to crack. Most plantations use a special machine. Here is Casa Nyamirambo, we use the time-honoured method of BBQ fork and two rocks.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Patty;

    Can you give us a list of "typical" procedures that you are providing anaesthesia for? FYI, we just had a beautiful spring weekend in Nova Scotia, as difficult to believe as that may be!

    Peter Anderson

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  2. Dear Peter,
    It's good to hear from you and thanks for following. We have not been in the OR much yet but will soon be. I know they have a lot of cases that we would never see. Last week they separated conjoined twins! Yesterday they had an eclamptic patient – this is, sadly, common. The surgeon from Mcgill we are with says he has seen pathology beyond anything he would normally see. I will try to let you know a bit more about cases as we go.

    Cheers, Patty

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