Clinic in Xesic

Today Marcos, Juan and Gaspar met at my house and we moved all of the equipment from our truck to Marcos' truck and then we were on our way to Xesic. It is the community that Aora lives in so she met us there.

Pedro had the building prepared for us and we were ready to begin at 0830! At first we did not have many patients but eventually they came around!

In between patients, we were able to put the HTI logo on the newest truck. I encouraged Marcos, Juan and Aora as they struggled with it.....
And then they had a finished product that looks very professional!
This is the newest addition to the family that lives near where we have clinic. This calf is only two months old.
For lunch we walked to Pedro's house and had a very fulfilling lunch of chicken, rice, vegetables, tortillas and fruit drink. The photo below is of Pedro's daughter with a new baby of only 11 months.
Today I had one of those episodes where you just turn your head and ignore what you just witnessed. A patient complained of a sore throat so I wanted to examine her throat. As I asked her to open her mouth, stick out her tongue and say, "ahhhh".......her top denture plate fell down! I saw what I needed to see and just turned away. It was one of those funny moments.

One little boy had a tooth pulled and he was holding his mouth and hurting. His mother then showed me his ankle that had a huge rope burn with some skin tears on it. He had been walking a cow and the rope wrapped around ankle and injured his ankle. There are many people who are missing thumbs and parts of hands because the rope of their animal wrapped around a limb and then they were injured. I cleaned his ankle and gave him some antibiotic cream.

After lunch we had several more patients before we started cleaning up for the day. We ended up with 17 medical patients and 24 dental patients. It was a wonderful clinic.