Pictures!

 OR Selfie!  Suzy's got serious skills... Heidi and Kelly are scrubbed in with Everaldo here.

The whole team finally in a shot together without our face masks on (we got this at the end of our last case today--)  From left to right, Micaela, Suzy, Kelly, Alma (Guatemalan scrub nurse and an institution at the Good Samaritan hospital where we work; she has been there over 30 years!), Heidi, and Everaldo

A few of our patients waiting to see us on the first day, while listening to me tell them they will all be seen if they wait patiently and they do NOT have to be fasting, followed by a word of prayer... (I like to think they are all deep in concentration, but they are more likely just wondering about my weird Spanish and accent!)

Suzy checking in on a post-op patient.  Cool Mickey Mouse sheets, huh?

The hospital courtyard-- I'll never be able to prove it scientifically, but I swear this place is good for healing!!

Suzy checking in on another patient~  she's rocking out the heart and lung exams for us since, let's face it-- we're gynecologists ;-)  She's a pediatrician so she actually pays attention to these things.

Kelly with a sweet, sweet patient that we operated on yesterday.  

Nice overview of the OR with Heidi and Kelly doing a rare open abdominal case and Suzy showing off her camera skills again.

And yes, that is Suzy (the pediatrician!) operating!  Turns out, pediatricians are darn good at suturing, of course ;-)

Kelly with "Ever" and "Mica"

 Told you we've been "paid" in peaches... by about eight different patients at least!

Unless you are a surgeon it's difficult to understand, but where we are operating is actually directly behind me here and directly to Kelly's left (i.e., the pelvis, of course)-- Seriously, difficulty level 11.5 out of 10.  I was pretty much struggling just to drive the camera while Kelly rocked this thing OUT like she'd been doing it all her life!

Just a taste of the colorful Guatemalan life

Rounds tend to be a little laid-back-- kinda more like a family conversation in the living room!  Only with three or four different families.  That didn't know each other until they all got put in the same hospital room.  And are all helping each other recover now.  Such a thing of beauty in so many ways.

A better one of Suzy and Kelly in the OR

And with that, my friends, it's LIGHTS OUT for me!  Good night.