April 26 - FNAC slides in order and an UWOCASO lunch

Early this morning, I went back to Mulago Hospital to take inventory of the breast FNAC slides that our team had scanned previously and arrange them in a slide box based on malignancy. It was a time-taking but productive few hours which should streamline the study process come Monday.

An organized slide box of breast FNAC slides

After leaving Mulago, I returned to my accommodations, where I met Carol and Joyce from the Uganda Women's Cancer Support Organization (UWOCASO). We have been working together for the last year on a different body of work related to creating accessible breast prostheses for Ugandan women who have undergone mastectomy. I had a chance to share our work around Ekyaalo Diagnostics with them and received feedback and information about willingness to pay amongst women who are in need of timely diagnostic information of suspicious breast lesions. As survivors of breast cancer themselves, Carol and Joyce had a unique perspective on the placement and accessibility of our intended intervention. I also got interesting feedback from Joyce, who is a teacher of the local language, Luganda, by profession. She shared that "Ekyaalo" really should be spelled with a single "a"!

Post-lunch with Joyce and Carol from UWOCASO

After lunch, I had a call with our app development team to troubleshoot another bug in our app. That wrapped up the second working day in-country. In the evening, a few friends and I attended a quiz night. What is a word, which, if you were to remove 4 letters, still sounds the same?