All of us, you ask? Yes, the three Leathermans, the three Bells, Roy, and his grandson, Cameron. The roads were, well, pretty bad. Luckily, both trucks are Toyota 4x4s with good mud tires on them. And we needed them.
Anyway, clinic was relatively routine, then we had lunch and the Leathermans flew down to Guatemala City to meet back up with John Hull and the team. Then the rest of us went down to the river to play volleyball. The river we have to cross was about the highest we've seen it in quite a while. We sure could have shot a Honda commercial - the ATVs and dirt bikes all forded about a 3 foot river without any problems. Pics 1-3 are of the game...
This morning, Roy and Cameron drove to Quiche, picked up Jacob, then went to the jobsite in Nueva Santa Catarina. Things there are not going exactly as planned, but with a little direction and a whole lot of prayer, things will turn out okay.
In San Andres, Heidi had a pretty interesting day. Remember about a year and a half ago when we tried our best to rescue a malnourished little baby but got turned around by a raging river we couldn't go through? The next day, the mom and baby got to the hospital by chicken bus and the hospital tried to save the baby but couldn't.
Anyway, the mom showed up in clinic today. She wasn't too big the last time we saw her. One of the reasons the baby was so malnourished was because Mom was half-starving herself - somewhere around 80 lbs. Today she was closer to 60 lbs. And based on her symptoms and the results of our HIV test, she's got full-blown AIDS. Her mother had come with her and explained that her husband runs around on her alot with women in Guatemala City.
Rosa (the patient) is a Christian. Her soul we are not all worried about. Her husband, on the other hand, grew up in the church but fell in with a bad crowd and got himself kicked out of the church. We prayed for him after diagnosing Rosa with AIDS and in less than an hour, he showed up outside clinic. After the unsurprising results of his own test came back, we explained his situation to him and that he is deadly contagious. We also explained that he's probably going to meet his maker sooner rather than later and that this would be an excellent time to get back into the church (around the time their baby died, he told us he was thinking about coming back).
Anyway, please pray for Rosa and her husband. For her that she stay strong in her faith and have a relatively easy go of it. For him that he find his way back home before it's too late.
Tomorrow is clinic in Chujuyub. Our last one there. Again, very mixed emotions...
Tuesday, Matt and Roy will go to Guatemala City to do some shopping. Wednesday, we probably have a quick trip to Solola to meet with a missionary there who is doing some fantastic work - we'll write more about it then.
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