Another clinic in Chutzurob

This morning, we made our way to Chutzurob.  It was a good day with Josue, Manuel and Cheryl.  Cheryl is a nurse, who has visited Guatemala several times.  She is here for two weeks to help us in the clinics.

We had a wide range of patients today with diarrhea, cough, fevers and muscular aches and pains.

This mother brought her son in to see us today because for two years he does not like to eat, does not enjoy school and his teachers say that he will not talk.  They denied any physical problems.  The more we talked to the mother, the more we found out.  Two years ago, her husband went to The States to work.  Also, during this time, her sister died from cancer.  These two years have been painful for Cristofer.

When I started talking to him about school, his dad and his aunt, he and his mom started to cry.   When I asked him if he was sad, his little head just bobbed up and down.  What a difficult and traumatic situation for this child.  As Cheryl and I talked on the way home, we know Cristofer is thinking that his mom is going to leave him too.

Cheryl got Cristofer to laugh for this photo.

This is Sebastian, who always helps us with the clinics.  His grandson is also names Sebastian.

On August 21st, Sebastian and I visited a young man in his home and I blogged about him that day.  Today, I found out that he has died.  His final medical report said that he died from Tuberculosis, pneumonia and stroke.  We tried so hard to get him to go to the hospital but he would not.  He was only 24 or 26 years old.  Such a sad situation...................for everyone.

Tomorrow, Josue and I will head to Xepol together and hopefully, have a lot of patients.