Thanks to Christina Schwering for posting the following blog tonight!
SOOOO, lets see how this thing holds up tonight... Its Tuesday night and we just finished a lovely dinner at the Casa San Juan with Roy and Jim, two of Heidi's awesome missionary friends (or "grandparent types to her kids" as she described them tonight :-)). Thoroughly enjoyed some limonada con soda, guacamole, and good conversation with great folks! And it was probably a much healthier meal than the ice cream we had for dinner last night... *lol*
The last 2 days have been BUSY!! Yesterday we saw 10 consultas and did 4 cases in the OR. Today we added on another 12 consultas and 2 vagathons (our 3rd OR patient never showed up... hoping she didn't think it was another day because we are FULL now!!) We actually added an extra OR morning Thursday to allow us to fit another case in! And even with that, the less urgent patients have been pushed to the next trip for their surgeries. That is always tough, but I am so grateful to have as many opportunities as God will give me to help out!! The cases have gone well so far. Both vagathons today were long... one complete prolapse that ran about 3 hours, and bled a little more than I would like (I think she must have been taking a lot of Aspirin or something... platelets were NOT doing their job for most of the case) but got a good end result and finally seemed to dry up a bit. The second case was about 2.5 hrs and went a little easier. Joey, our med student with Heidi, has been a Godsend... excellent assistant in some tough cases... bright, hard-working, and a fast learner... really has been a blessing.
A few prayer requests for tonight... First of all, Heidi saw a young lady during our first case that came in for no period and feeling pregnant for 8 months... lo and behold, she is indeed 8 months pregnant. When Heidi told her, she burst into tears... she is married and her husband is in the States and the baby isn't his apparently. The father of the baby doesn't want anything to do with it and apparently she is staying with her parents who will kick her out if they find out she is pregnant. She is terrified... Pray that God find a way to allow her to safely deliver this child and that He finds a place for this little one. I know that God can use the worst situations and some of our biggest failures for His glory... pray that this experience will do just that in her life and the people around her. Sometimes at our lowest point is when we are truly able to look to Him. Continue to pray for our patients and for the people we have yet to see... pray that in serving them, they will be able to see something different than the world around them! :-) A small praise is that 3 of the nurses at Buen Samaritano asked for consultas from us today. God has given us favor here and a good reputation with the locals allows us to reach so many more... people will come if they trust us!
Thanks again for the prayer... we are so grateful for it... and HAPPY BIRTHDAY again to Ashley!! If you see her today, shower her with lots of love!! 2 more days in Chichi, 1 in Canilla, then HOME! Love to you all!
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