Day 3 Marantha Community
Wednesday Marantha Community
So, you know what today is? huh? huh? huh? That's right!!! It's hump day!!! Unfortunately we have about a third of our team down with digestive upsets and they missed the joy of hump day. For a while we were blaming it on the ice cream we had at yesterday's work site (yes, the ice cream man was a patient and so pleased with our ministrations he brought his ice cream wagon in and treated us all to an ice cream cone). Neopolitan. But, there are quite a few of us that ate the ice cream and did fine but who knows? On the up side, at least today was a day when we had an extra doctor, Dinora's sister in law, and the building crew only had one floor to do at the Mennonite church next door to the school where the clinic was. There was so much help at the church some of the guys came up and helped in clinics or played with the kids. Our community today was at the top of a mountain and has no water and no electricity. It is a very new community that was displaced 15 years ago after Hurricane Mitch.
One of our patients looked a lot like Joe. A big, thick hombre who did not understand why he had to stand in line with the women and go through the process. He just wanted someone to look at his sore shoulder and get him back to work. At 70 years old he still wanted to work and didn't know why his shoulder had to hurt. Of course manipulating his shoulder was like palpating a bag of rocks with the arthritis just creaking and crackling all over the place. But since he was the Honduran version of a stubborn dutchie, we gave him his pain meds and waved him through. His mustache was not half as luxuriant as Joes though.
Before we left we presented the Pastor of the church with a WAKAWAKA. I think he will be able to make good use of it since they have lots of sunshine and no electricity. A WAKAWAKA is a solar powered brick into which you can plug a phone or ipad to charge and it also has a good light that will work for a day on a 4 hour charge. Right now the makers of wakawaka are helping Syrian refugees by donating one wakawaka for everyone that you buy at their website. Google it. Keep us in your prayers that a good nights sleep rejuvenates us all and also pray that we stop dropping like flies.
Please also pray for Dinoras sister in law who was in a traffic accident on her way home today. She is uninjured but her car isn't. Love, karen, official scribe to the March team
So, you know what today is? huh? huh? huh? That's right!!! It's hump day!!! Unfortunately we have about a third of our team down with digestive upsets and they missed the joy of hump day. For a while we were blaming it on the ice cream we had at yesterday's work site (yes, the ice cream man was a patient and so pleased with our ministrations he brought his ice cream wagon in and treated us all to an ice cream cone). Neopolitan. But, there are quite a few of us that ate the ice cream and did fine but who knows? On the up side, at least today was a day when we had an extra doctor, Dinora's sister in law, and the building crew only had one floor to do at the Mennonite church next door to the school where the clinic was. There was so much help at the church some of the guys came up and helped in clinics or played with the kids. Our community today was at the top of a mountain and has no water and no electricity. It is a very new community that was displaced 15 years ago after Hurricane Mitch.
One of our patients looked a lot like Joe. A big, thick hombre who did not understand why he had to stand in line with the women and go through the process. He just wanted someone to look at his sore shoulder and get him back to work. At 70 years old he still wanted to work and didn't know why his shoulder had to hurt. Of course manipulating his shoulder was like palpating a bag of rocks with the arthritis just creaking and crackling all over the place. But since he was the Honduran version of a stubborn dutchie, we gave him his pain meds and waved him through. His mustache was not half as luxuriant as Joes though.
Before we left we presented the Pastor of the church with a WAKAWAKA. I think he will be able to make good use of it since they have lots of sunshine and no electricity. A WAKAWAKA is a solar powered brick into which you can plug a phone or ipad to charge and it also has a good light that will work for a day on a 4 hour charge. Right now the makers of wakawaka are helping Syrian refugees by donating one wakawaka for everyone that you buy at their website. Google it. Keep us in your prayers that a good nights sleep rejuvenates us all and also pray that we stop dropping like flies.
Please also pray for Dinoras sister in law who was in a traffic accident on her way home today. She is uninjured but her car isn't. Love, karen, official scribe to the March team
posted by DRE MAMA Project at
3/19/2014 09:57:00 PM
2 Comments:
Karen, you are doing a great!!! job as the official scribe. I love reading about your days.
Thanks Karen for keeping us updated with what is happening. We all appreciate it.
We will continue to hold each of you in our prayers.
God's spirit of healing and strength be on each of you.
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