With the clock running down we arranged an unconventional shopping trip with a long time friend of my dad's who is the general manager of Alberta Paramedical, an ambulance service in Alberta! A few months ago he agreed to donate as much medical stuff as we could carry to take to the hospital in Takoradi. We started our adventure at Tim Hortons.... as per usual... and headed off with our large steeped tea double doubles and our toasted everything bagels with plain cream cheese. And yes, if you are wondering, we have identical Tim's orders. We headed over to the warehouse for Alberta Paramedical armed with 4 MASSIVE bags. We spent over an hour packing hundreds of IV needles, isolation oxygen masks, tracheostomy tubes, catheters, glucometers and glucometer strips, air splints and many other supplies into our bags. We spent a lot of time laughing about how much customs would love us as we packed needle after needle into our "sharps bag", future us won't find it nearly as funny I'm sure. This being said after reading that the hospital had to use broken needles on patients because of their supply shortages we are more than happy to cry our way through customs (its not a ploy, if we get pulled aside we will cry for real). We spend tonight sorting through our bags and getting them all set to put on the plane- and tried our hand at walking in air splints. 30 days and counting...
-K and L
-K and L