Bleaching the wards

The field service is at days from it's end in Sierra Leone for the Africa Mercy. Our final patients have now left and are being seen by the Sierra Leonians that were trained for that purpose while onboard.

So what have we been spending our time doing? Why bleaching. Bleaching everything. Twice. The walls, the ceilings, the cupboards, everything in them, the beds, the mattresses, pillows, risers, toys, games, you name it. It's been bleached once, left to dry and bleached again. The smell of it is pretty pervasive at this point and I smell like a bleach bottle.

Once bleached down, everything that moves is getting strapped down for the sail... so it won't pitch and roll into someone or something. Huge amounts of work going on right now, and we're all pretty tired at the end of the day.

But of course we had have some fun with it all.