ASELSI and Market

Yesterday was our clinic at ASELSI in Chichicastenango. Heidi and Gail came along and were a big help with Isaac and with some of the consults. We had our normal contingent of prenatal patients, a few sick kids, and a weird one or two. One lady told us that every day after lunch she gets these bumps on her face and they go away during the night. We asked every way we knew how to determine if there's a food allergy. She claims that there's not. One cultural note - Mayans eat nearly the same foods for all three meals. It's not uncommon to hear about a breakfast of tamales, soup, and tortillas. Lunch and supper will often be just about the same thing. So we tried with some benadryl and we'll see what happens.

Our little underweight baby didn't come back. Remember last week we talked about the six month old who the mother was leaving with her 12 year old daughter? We wanted to see the baby again this week to check his weight but she didn't bring him back. It's sad, but we can only help the people who want to be helped.

After clinic, we went to check on Heidi's post-op patient and did some shopping in the Chichi market.

Then it was back home to make some fajita salad for dinner and play some Trivial Pursuit. Team Bell was victorious over the visiting team. (Of course, we could say we won anyway, Heidi and Gail don't have the password to our blog!!!)

Well, gotta go. Isaac's having a bad morning... You can figure out what the pics are...