One surprising thing that appeared before me this morning when I checked my comments, it was a note from the lady we took care of who broke her ankle. She sounds like she is doing fine and her ankle is healing well.
We are on the final leg of our journey, Dr Brent headed back to the States this morning so we are back to just Dr. D. We all did well on our midterm (which turned out to be a late term) it sounds like the vast majority of us have A’s and B’s, which is awesome! Dr. D. is proud of us. We are planning to do a carnival with the orphanage kids this weekend, and we are going to help teach the local Pathfinders first aid, which is going to take up most of the rest of our time. That and studying for our Final test which is going to be next Thursday. Then on Friday we are going to take a bus back to La Ceiba and stay at this nice hotel and relax, and go on a rafting trip for half a day. Then its time to pack up and hit the airport in San Pedro Sula and head home! Yea, we are all anxious to get back. I will let you in on more as it happens and as I have access to the internet.
Hasta Luego!
Josh
This past Sunday we left La Ceiba and took a five hour bus ride to a mountain town called Pina Blanca, which translates into “White Pineapple” We are staying at the SDA Academy here. It it VERY conservative by American standards! They wake everyone, and I mean everyone (the dean comes by and knocks on everyones door until they get up and answer) up at 5am, breakfast starts at 6 and ends at 6:15am. The lunch bell is an air raid siren. Every day I wonder if there are Japanese Zeros coming in to bomb us…The electricity os only on from 6pm to 9:30pm, and that is when everyone is supposed to go to bed. Oh and the showers are about 50 degrees…we all have been adjusting somewhat and we are going to be here for the last three week of our stay in Honduras. Our plan is to have lecture, take tests, have 2 clinics, and to spend time with the orphanage kids here in town. We leave for the States on the 22nd of this month. Twenty-one more days to go…
This post is a bit behind, but I will continue anyway.
So far we have participated in 9 clinics; 5 with the quiet hour and 4 with just our group. Let me tell you how things went with the quiet hour…The first day of clinics, we were supposed to go to a far out village an hour away from where we were staying, but things changed because the pastors here like to have evangelistic meetings and baptisms while we are doing clinic, so they tend to ,take things work their way. The first day was the worst, as we ended up seeing around 500 patients (300 on the medical side, and around 200 that went to the eye clinic). we just tried to move people through. Most of our patients consist of headaches and general body aches, oh yeah and there are plenty of worm cases as well. We pass out a lot of ibuprofen and mebendazole, which is a anti parasite-med. The rest of our clinics with the quiet hour were treating less people and we saw more interesting cases. Personally, I have helped in a couple minor surgeries which were to remove a fatty cyst, and to remove a horny wart. I have given a few injections, and unfortunately I have participated in a couple of rectal/pelvic/breast exams. All part of the job, I have to get used to it. The four clinics where we were by ourselves we saw less patients and it was in the mountains by La Ceiba. The Governor of the area presented us with certificates of achievement and thanks, which was cool. The President of the country even knows of our works. God has been working here, and we see I every day. I do have pictures, but, as the internet here is not adequate I can not load them. I will add them when I get back to the States.
