Wednesday, March 21, 2007

More Student Stuff

Today we split up again. Two students went to the Hospital Buen Samaritano with Heidi and did clinic, both with her and with the ENT who's here. The other four stayed at the house to sort the medicines they brought and to take the donated medical supplies to the hospital.

The folks at the hospital were very excited to see what had come down on the container. There were lots and lots of very valuable gifts in the four truckloads we took down.

This afternoon, all of us ended up at the hospital. Things looked kind of slow, so Heidi and Matt and two students came back to the house for siestas. Four students stayed to observe some more surgeries and then caught a chicken bus and a tuk-tuk back to the house. We were told that that was quite the adventure!

This evening, Heidi gave an ultrasound seminar using our baby as the model. Everyone will get plenty of opportunities to see ultrasounds tomorrow, but we won't have an unlimited time to teach, since we have lots of patients to see and a finite amount of time to do it.

After clinic at ASELSI, we'll go to the tourist market in Chichicastenango, Heidi will round on her surgical patient from yesterday, and then we've been invited to watch a soccer match that some hospital employees here in Quiche are playing in.

Here are a few more pics - more tomorrow...


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Only in Guatemala would you find a turkey in the appliance store only few feet from an oven which could bake him!! Great shot!

Best wishes and thanks to the medical students! Safe travels. I hope that this trip will be a highlight among your memories.

Love and prayers, Mary Jean Bell