Random Observations
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 94 Comments »by Carrie The indigenous Mayan women who often visit our clinics are very comfortable with breastfeeding and often feed their babies while meeting with us. However, they are very uncomfortable exposing their bellies as these are viewed as a private area! ...
blob update
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 2459 Comments »written by Anthony Clinics have been going smoothly. I've been getting more comfortable with my role here and have to pester Dr. Pope less and less for the day to day routine things we see here. I still stumble a couple ...
quiché updates
Friday, July 17th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 490 Comments »written by Anthony Earlier this week a 21 person surgical team from Houston joined us and shared our living space here. They were here to do plastic surgery and ob/gyn cases in the hospital across the street. They did a bunch ...
Adventures in ChiChi and Xela
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 517 Comments »Written by Carrie Okay hello everyone! So we had our "weekend" break from clinic on Sunday and Monday, and took a road trip to Chichicastenango and Quetzaltenango (Xela) to celebrate. Chichi is a big tourist destination here in Guatemala because of ...
Clinics near and far
Saturday, July 11th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 502 Comments »written by Anthony Friday July 10thWe traveled back to the same Alelsi clinic of the previous day, but this time dealt predominately with prenatal care. The purpose of prenatal care is pretty obvious, to try to identify the "saboteurs" of ...
Second clinic day
Thursday, July 9th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 321 Comments »written by Anthony Today we headed to the outskirts of Chichicastenango, about a 45 minute drive from our place. Chichicastenango is a Mayan dominated small village which proudly proclaims itself as the "mecca of tourism". This is somewhat of an overstatement, ...
Our first day at a clinic
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 3802 Comments »written by Anthony Carrie and I had our first clinic day today! First, the briefest of introductions. We are volunteering through a program called Agape in Action (http://www.agapeinaction.org/) which focuses on health care needs of Central Guatemala. We are staying a heavily ...
Hello from Santa Cruz del Quiche!
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 105 Comments »post by Carrie Hi everyone! We made it safely to Santa Cruz del Quiche on Monday after spending the last week backpacking around Guatemala. We had a great time exploring Guatemala City, Antigua, and Lake Atitlan but are now ready to ...