Living in Honduras–IRR Style

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.