So today, as always, was a busy clinic day. We ended up seeing 22 patients, but unfortunately
have at least 10 more to see tomorrow between surgeries that showed up today
but were turned away. Clinic tends to
run long because each patient gets a full history and physical (in Spanish),
and surgical patients also get consent counseling, financial counseling,
labwork (fingersticks plus urines), paperwork for admission, and instructions
for the day of surgery. It can take a while!
And today, we scheduled 11 of our 22 for surgery! There were at least two more that have
surgical issues but don’t quite want surgery yet. Others were an assortment of “macarena” body
aches and pains (when they start telling you their symptoms and pointing to
where it hurts and it pretty much literally looks like they are starting the
Macarena dance!), a lady who is unmarried and had an elective abortion 26 years
ago with pain ever since (likely with a psychological component), a couple of
abnormal cervical biopsies, one post-op from October that looked GREAT (thank
goodness!), and one lady whose problems were really all due to her diabetes
that is out of control. (For you medical
types, she had a Hemoglobin A1C of 12.4!)
Surgeries scheduled for the next few days include:
1 LEEP
1 Partial Colpocleiesis
6 vaginal hysterectomies with prolapse repairs (what I
lovingly refer to as a “Vag-a-Thon”!)
2 abdominal hysterectomies
1 removal of a prolapsed fibroid—who has a hemoglobin of
7!! She has been bleeding for 2 years
straight, y’all… and we were sooooo happy to be able to diagnose the fibroid
and not cervical cancer which had been suspected on a recent ultrasound!
Please pray especially for one of our vaginal repairs
patients. Her name is Aura, and she was
in tears in clinic today asking for prayer for her and her husband, who she
thinks is having an affair with another lady in their church! He ended up showing up at the end of the
appointment after we had explained and arranged everything with her—so of
course we got to kind of start over with him!
And this is why many more than 20 just doesn’t work in the day.
We did manage to get some photos today of some of these special
women, and a few from around the hospital.
I will share those in a separate blog post hopefully still tonight, but
want to go ahead and upload this since the pictures take a bit longer!
Thanks for your prayers and well-wishes this week. Let us know if there is anything you want to
hear more about!
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