Day 2 Buenos Aires/Los Flores
Hello friends! Today we had a medical clinic in the school while the building team put up part of a new wall for the local Mennonite church. We met a young Mennonite from Oklahoma who is working with SALT and is teaching english and computers during his time here. Ken was impressed with how the people he was working with at the building site would talk about their conversions to christianity and shared their experiences so freely and willingly. He said many were very remarkable and touching. At the end of the day the building team came back and had a game of soccer that was played with absolute gusto on the part of the children. Terri was nearly decapitated by a stray ball but survived to tell the tale.
At the medical clinics we saw a great variety of cases. Yesterday we saw 205 patients, today we saw 208 plus a couple of dozen who came through without cards, or missed the worming line or were separated from their families. Just a little disorganized but all who came got care eventually. One child that came to visit with us was a child who was seen last year with serious lung congestion secondary to a heart problem. He was sent to a hospital last year and did well. He is still with us and is going to get heart surgery to fix his heart! The mother of this child found a way to arrange the surgery on her own. Never doubt the ability of a mother to find a way to save her child. We also saw some very elderly patients that are in their 80's and still doing well. One fellow wanted some pain meds because he is still working and was thrown from his horse and probably cracked a rib. A very tough old hombre.
One thing I forgot to mention yesterday was that on the way home we saw a pig riding a motorcycle. We have 3 witnesses to this. No agreement on whether it was alive or dead but he was bungy corded in. No helmet. We suspect that it may have had a dinner date. I didn't mention it yesterday because I didn't think Bob would believe us, but he has a collection of pictures of pigs riding motorcycles. Who knew?
Tomorrow we go to Marantha, Santiago, a small village with no water or electricity. Please pray that we are helpful to them and that we have a good day there and do some good. love, karen
At the medical clinics we saw a great variety of cases. Yesterday we saw 205 patients, today we saw 208 plus a couple of dozen who came through without cards, or missed the worming line or were separated from their families. Just a little disorganized but all who came got care eventually. One child that came to visit with us was a child who was seen last year with serious lung congestion secondary to a heart problem. He was sent to a hospital last year and did well. He is still with us and is going to get heart surgery to fix his heart! The mother of this child found a way to arrange the surgery on her own. Never doubt the ability of a mother to find a way to save her child. We also saw some very elderly patients that are in their 80's and still doing well. One fellow wanted some pain meds because he is still working and was thrown from his horse and probably cracked a rib. A very tough old hombre.
One thing I forgot to mention yesterday was that on the way home we saw a pig riding a motorcycle. We have 3 witnesses to this. No agreement on whether it was alive or dead but he was bungy corded in. No helmet. We suspect that it may have had a dinner date. I didn't mention it yesterday because I didn't think Bob would believe us, but he has a collection of pictures of pigs riding motorcycles. Who knew?
Tomorrow we go to Marantha, Santiago, a small village with no water or electricity. Please pray that we are helpful to them and that we have a good day there and do some good. love, karen
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3/18/2014 10:12:00 PM
1 Comments:
Hoping to hear more about how the church is doing in this community, and what vision the pastor and congregation have for their church.
I'll be waiting to see YOUR pictures of pigs on motorcycles too!
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