News and articles from Rory Wilson

Rory relishes a weekend on call

Working a 36 hour shift may not be everyone’s idea of a good weekend, but for Rory it can prove a welcome break from administrative hassles.

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Posted 1 day ago | 0 comments

Blogging on the go

Car mechanical breakdowns can happen anywhere, but does AA cover extend to Uganda? Rory tells us how he made it home after the engine in his vehicle overheated.

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Posted on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 | 4 comments

Stonechips, Guinness and Bishops.

While travelling to Kampala this morning I noted again what an interesting journey it can be…...

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Posted on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 | 0 comments

Times, they are a changin.

Our Medical Superintendent is to be married…that’s me!

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Posted on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 | 6 comments

Big Bums Quick!

Advertising posters can catch one’s eye while sitting in a Kampala traffic jam staring into space. “Big bums quick” caught the eye of Rory and stimulated a reflection on growth and development in Uganda.

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Posted on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 | 3 comments

Rory the Baptiser

Like many things I seem to end up doing, assisting in a baptism is somewhat stretching the ‘any other reasonable tasks’ part of my job description as a Medical Superintendent….but what a great way to spend an afternoon.

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Posted on Sun, 18 May 2008 | 0 comments

Superglue me.

Applying superglue to a child’s lips might send some scurrying to find the number for social services….but not in Kiwoko…..

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Posted on Mon, 05 May 2008 | 0 comments

Thy kingdom come....

For a moment I caught a glimpse of the power of uncountable numbers of people from every nation before God’s throne worshiping from their hearts. Christianity is not a middle class white Western world social construct. This God we are worshiping is God over all the earth He has made. The reality of that can seem distant in our busy media full lives, but man, I have been struck forcefully (yet) again of who are God is, and indeed how blessed I am to know him and work with His people here.

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Posted on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 | 1 comments

John goes home laughing

John is an eight year old lad from a village about 20 miles from Kiwoko. On Thursday he was at school but on Friday morning he was not able to wake up properly and was fighting for his life against bacterial meningitis.

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Posted on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 | 0 comments

The Rains Are Here!

Greetings from a rainy Kiwoko!

They’ve come at last. I got soaked last night when out on my bicycle – sort of not good as I was wet and muddy, but sort of fantastic as we now have some water in the hospital water tanks.

Our container also arrived last weekend. Brian Dorman and some friends had garnered up some fantastic equipment from various hospitals and friends. The container got stuck in Kenya in the middle of all the strife there. Amazingly it arrived on Saturday afternoon, when as circumstances would have it, Brian was visiting Kiwoko. What had taken him weeks to prepare, and a day with a forklift truck to pack, our men unloaded by hand (with the aid of 2 ropes and 3 planks) in 1.5 hours.

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Posted on Sat, 16 Feb 2008