Women's Team!

The team from Women's Hospital in Houston came in last night. All of their stuff made it okay, which is nice. We had some time when they first got here to get organized for the week, have a nice dinner (thank you, Gencha), and get some sleep.

This morning, Heidi and Malachi went to clinic, Matt and Isaac worked with Martin to fix the broken torsion bar on the 4Runner ($25 and about 30 minutes - not a tough repair), and the team started on clinic in the hospital.

Thanks to the advertising the hospital did and the contacts we made through Ceritas, they had plenty of patients. In fact, we're already scheduled into Wednesday. With any luck, we'll fill up the rest of the week's surgical schedule tomorrow morning with some late comers.

We hadn't forgotten how fun this team was from last year and had really been looking forward to this week. And even with some new faces, they are just as fun and easy-going as they were last year. And Isaac LOVES all of the attention he gets! He'll probably be a royal pain when he has to entertain himself for five minutes at a time next week, but this week is a blast!

John is meeting with Eliseo (the pastor whose school our funding group is helping to build in San Pedro), then he'll meet with the director of the hospital here. The main thrust of that meeting is to assure them that we are here to help them in any way we can, and to assess their changing needs and how we can help fill those.

When Jim and Kathleen first came here, the hospital needed EVERYTHING! After several years of support from them, the hospital is pretty much on its own two feet from a day-to-day operation standpoint. Now we need to figure out how to address more specific and more focused needs. Hopefully, someday, when we ask what we can do to help, they'll say, "you've already done it - we're fine". Then we can help somewhere else!

Anyway, we'll try to post some pictures tonight.