Clinic Rocks.

After a pretty good night's sleep, it was off to the races in clinic today!  At first I was a little concerned when we "only" had 12 patients, but by the end of the day we were thankful and could see that once again, God sent us just as much as we could handle...


Out of those twelve, we scheduled four surgeries, have four coming back later in the week to review various labs or other studies, admitted one for overnight management of her diabetes (yes, it was THAT bad...), and have at least one that Skip is going to "have" to come back to further care for!!  Although ideally we would see only surgical patients for scheduling this early in the week, it was really a nice mix today--


Please pray for two young couples who have both been married for 10 years with no children~  They are both, of course, heartbroken over it.  One couple will come back with some labs to review later this week and can hopefully be helped with some hormonal treatments.  The other lady, though, will actually be having surgery on Tuesday which may take away any chance of fertility (for you medicalese-speakers, she has at least one large hydrosalpinx and we're hoping it's not bilateral...)


Also pray for our four surgeries that are scheduled:  three "vag-a-thons", which is the affectionate term we use for vaginal surgery that will take several hours for prolapse, plus the young lady with the tube problem and infertility.  Also pray that some more patients will find us if they need help during the week!


Of course, the lady we admitted for diabetes control could use some prayer help as well!  Her name is Manuela, and she really needs some good help with her diabetes... We are very hopeful, since Paul and Lindsey with Agape in Action have a clinic in their town this Tuesday and every month!  So we will get her started on insulin and then send her to them for continued care afterwards. 


Last but not least, pray for health for our team-- Nick has a pretty bad cold coming on that we hope to not all catch.  Everyone today was a bit dehydrated with various symptoms but we're working on it and improving.  No one passed out, so that's good, right?  Great attitudes and patience and clinical skill, though, were abundant and I really don't see that changing with this team.  We were able to catch a couple of pictures today, which I will try to post when we get back to the apartment.  (We're at a restaurant for dinner now... It's only 9 pm after all...)


More to follow...