San Lucas

For our 3rd clinic day, we traveled to San Lucas, back to the same feeding center we were at the day before. We got off to a hectic start, because we were missing 5 team members, with all of those being a crucial part to how things flowed. So we had a little bit of the controlled chaos going on for some of the day. But, luckily, we have very strong people on this trip, and we easily managed to pick up the slack and help things run a little smoother. I spent a lot of my day at triage. I really liked triage because you seemed to be able to interact with the patients a little more than when you were in pharmacy. We had 2 doctors for the first part of the day and it ran much the same as the previous day. The children showed up at 12:30 for lunch, and they were given a very short version of our VBS we did in El Arado.

After lunch, we were all able to regroup a little bit and get some of our energy back. We had one doctor stay in the clinic and the other doctor went out on a house call. The doctor that stayed saw so many patients, it was very impressive to me. The other doctor went with a small set of students on about a 3 hour round about trip to this woman's house. I didn't go because I was feeling ill still. However, I heard whenever they walked into the this ladies house, they assumed that she was 80 years old or so. They were told that she had severe diabetes and it was already starting to take an effect on her. She had no way of testing her glucose levels, which could be life-threatening. So they gave this sweet lady our only glucose meter so that she could monitor her levels and try and fight her diabetes. Pretty cool thing!

I missed a few could chunks of this day because of how ill I felt. I actually laid down and napped for a hour or two during the day! But, 3rd clinic day was a success!

Afterwards, we went shopping in Antigua in the shops. We went to this little center with several shops. I bought quite a few things, and I have to admit, I love haggling with the people to get a better price. We actually stayed long enough for the gates to close so we had to take a detour around the marketplace. (Don't worry Mom, I was with several guys and girls!) But we did walk through where the Guatemalans actually shop and I have to stay that it was very different. Very good day in Guatemala!

Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures this day. The next 2 blog posts should be very good. Friday, today, was such an incredible day. With lots of stories that made me tear up witnessing them!