Annie Leaves
Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in INMED | 198 Comments »Annie, the 4th year med student here, left to go back to the states today. We will miss having her around. This morning Heidi and I went to Hospital Buen Samaritano for her gyn clinic. We saw about 7 patients, ...
Ruins
Thursday, February 28th, 2008 Posted in INMED | 190 Comments »Today was clinic again at ASELSI. It was a pretty straight forward day with mostly routine type complaints. I did see one 16 y/o girl that reported 'fainting' about every 2 weeks. The description of these passing out episodes was ...
Tourists
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted in INMED | 193 Comments »For the last few days Matt, Annie and I were able to drop the missionary work and be tourists while Heidi and Isaac traveled to North Carolina for a job interview. It was a nice break. Monday morning we got ...
The Weekend
Sunday, February 24th, 2008 Posted in INMED | 191 Comments »Friday we went to Hospital Buen Samaritano and saw only about 6 patients. That is supposed to be an ob/gyn clinic. The first patient we saw was a 13 y/o girl who had about 28 days of vaginal bleeding. She ...
ASELSI
Thursday, February 21st, 2008 Posted in INMED | 197 Comments »Today was our morning clinic at ASELSI, the clinic set up by another American couple that has been here for about 20 years. Heidi does clinic here every Thursday morning. Today was not a very eventful day in clinic, with ...
Starting a new clinic
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 Posted in INMED | 187 Comments »This morning Regina, a Mayan women who is friends with Heidi and Matt as they have helped several of her children with cleft lip/palate, brought another family with a baby with cleft palate along with the 3mo old we saw ...
Chiminisijuan
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 Posted in INMED | 182 Comments »Today's clinic was up in the mountains in a village/town called Chiminisijuan (not sure of the spelling?). It's a clinic that Leslie and Katie Ficker usually do every Tuesday and today we decided to go and help out. Most days ...
Chicabracan
Monday, February 18th, 2008 Posted in INMED | 177 Comments »Today we had clinic in Chicabracan which is only about 20 minutes away. The clinic is held in a very small room that is part of a school. The school lets Heidi use the space every other monday. For this ...
Weekend in Canilla and San Andres
Sunday, February 17th, 2008 Posted in INMED | No Comments »Saturday morning we got up bright and early in order to have the truck loaded and lunches made and packed to be ready to leave at 6am. We drove about 2 hours to Canilla to the Fickers' house where we ...
spoiled
Friday, February 15th, 2008 Posted in INMED | 1 Comment »Today I feel very spoiled and lazy. Today was supposed to be gyn clinic in ChiChi at the hospital where Heidi does surgery. When we got there at about 8:30, there were no patients waiting. So, we walked around the streets ...