Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Exciting Day, Post #2

We mentioned in the last post (the next one down if you'll scroll) how exciting our trip to and from clinic was. Now you can see some pictures from clinic. The first is a beautiful Guatemalan girl we treated for worms. Heidi is feeling her belly, which gave us the tell-tale signs.

The next two pictures we will need to have looked at by a dermatologist. If you know one, we'd appreciate the "e-referral". We have the full size pictures here if he/she needs them. This baby has had this rash for a month and we're not really sure what it is. Leslie has seen a lot of rashes in her day, but this one has us all stumped. It isn't spreading but takes up her whole arm. She doesn't seem to be in a lot of pain from it - we were allowed to move her around without any screaming or fussing. Anyway, please help us if you can!!!

The last picture is what our patients get to see every day when they're walking around. That's a shot from the trail leading to clinic. The life might be difficult, but the view is hard to beat!!! It's amazing to us how much we can help some people with nothing more than Ibuprofin and vitamins. They have such an incomplete diet (mostly just corn tortillas) that they are all so vitamin deficient. And they have no corner drug store to run to for headache or muscle ache medicine (and when you work as hard as they do, you're bound to have muscle aches!)

Please pray for these wonderful people, that they may know that the struggle they live with every day is only temporary and that, if they'll give their hearts to Jesus, that they can spend eternity in a place where there is no hunger and no pain.






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