Organized

Today we will battle another day of sunny and 80 in Peru. My heart goes out to my family and friends in Ohio who will battle yet another winter storm this weekend. We are hoping it does not delay our arrival back home.

We plan to visit a local nursing school and tour a hospital today. The nurses are pretty tired and I'm not sure we could handle another neighborhood clinic today.

Yesterday's clinic was another great day but started out questionably as our bus broke down on the way. Our bus driver, Americo, showed me we had thrown a belt and then he immediately got to work fixing it. Success after only about 15 minutes and we were on our way to Hogar de Ninos orphange for our clinic for the neighborhood of Pape Leon. We planned on two doctors...............and we got one. Our concern melted as we soon realized we were dealing with a very organized, effecient la doctora. We are also getting good at this and soon had all our stations set up.

Station # 1: Triage and vitals.
Station # 2: Doctor
Station # 3: Pharmacy and injections
Station # 4: Free clothes

It turns out that we served more people than any previous clinic: 127. We had no major surprises but did see a little boy with six toes. We see a lot of kids with worms and parasites according to our doctors. As our time here in Peru winds down I am so honored to be here with these world changers from Malone College. I am convinced that each and every one they served will come up to them in heaven to say "gracias" one more time.