1: Emily, the student nurse, arrived in La Ceiba. Luckily her bus was late because mine broke down on the side of the road somewhere between Trujillo and Tocoa.
2: Took Emily for an adventure in La Ceiba buying the kids medications at several different pharmacies.
5: Brigades started. SChool was canceled and 10 Finca vols headed to the Cristofer Columbus Hotel to start the week off.
6: I headed to the hospital to translate and meet some really cool people.
7: Today the OR and the front desk fought over me for their translator.
8: Spent my thrird day with Dr. Cashman, ENT, and think I have it down pretty well.
9: MK and I discovered the towering Strawberry smoothies at the hotel!
10: Assisted with a Perferated Tympanic Membrane repair (whole in the ear), first ever Dr. Cashman had done WITHOUT anethsia in a clinic room vs. The OR, pretty sweet!
12: Alisha and MK lead Family day activity and we did a mini Camino de Santiago, a very popular and well know walk-hick across Spain. I want to do the really one now, it i son my list!
13: Ismary, our director, had bread made a blessed for all the houses on the Finca. Today is the feast day of San Antonio, part of his misión was to bake bread and feed the poor.
14: Today a gorobo, or lizard fell from the ceiling in the clinic. Yes that is right. In fact it even climbed back up, so Emily and I took empty med bottles and threw them up at him to get him to leave!
17: Sheena and Emily and I ran errands all over Trujillo for hours fort he Quinceañera of the Finca. At one point Emily was in the back of truck sitting on a giant pot of cooked beans singin in the rain!
18: Quinceañera of the Finca
20: 18yo went into labor. Nils, Emily and I took them to the hospital. She ended up need to have her second C-section but we were unable to stay and see how it all turned out.
21: Hicked up to Buena Visita to visit the 5yo boy who had a hip reduction during the brigades and was now in a full body cast. He is doing GREAT given the conditions his family lives in! Dr. Chris and orthopedic nurse Katie, from a construction brigada at the Finca, join us and had a wonderful time too!
23: Emily and Nils and I were able to visit the baby and mom in the hospital who were going home the same day. She didn´t have a name for the 5lb-er yet but she was super cute!
25: Hung out with house 6 the oldest girls and gave them all a manicure.
27: First time I check my email in over 2 weeks 97 emails!
28: Did a home visit to check on mom and baby at home!
29: Went to La Ceiba to drop off Emily, Dalila, one of our adolecents, told me my scrubs were super ugly and she would not want to be seen with me!
30: To end the month off, Betsy, Amanda, Alisha and I all went to Cayos Cuchinos for a day of snorkling, SUPER fun!
