Monday Clinic

Today was our last clinic in Chicabracan before the baby. We had only given about a half a dozen appointments because we weren't 100% sure that we'd be able to make this clinic (we're now past 37 weeks, which technically is when the "term" window starts).

We handed out about 8 numbers, saw about 8 more stragglers, and then headed home. One piece of great news is that our patient, Ana, who is the most severe diabetic we have, had a completely normal blood sugar today. She's been everywhere from the 400s to 40. (Normal is between 90 and 130 for controlled diabetics.) We're also trying another treatment angle on our 60-something year old patient with completely destroyed lungs from cooking over an open fire all her life (thanks to Dr. Lisa Dunham for that idea!). We'll see how her cough is when we come back in August. Oh, and we saw another seizure patient who has completely stopped seizing when he's taking his meds. So we gave him more, duh!

This afternoon, we had a little fun at home. We got out the camera and tried to get some good "belly pics" and we think we got at least one that's worth sharing. (You'll see that below - it's the first one.)

Heidi also found some of the special chocolate you use for coating bananas, strawberries and such, and bought some fresh strawberries in the market ($0.76/lb - eat your hearts out!). So we made dessert for after our homemade chili. Shhh - don't tell anyone - we want people to think the mission field is really, really hard - all the time! (Dessert is the second pic.) If you'll check out the other Heidi's blog (on the links list on the right hand side of this page), you'll see that we are very quickly approaching the level that Heidi Durham has attained. And we didn't even have to move to New York!

Anyway, tomorrow is our last prenatal visit in Guatemala City. We'll leave home about 5:30am to try to get as far as we can before road destruction...er...construction starts.