For starters, the last two days have been a struggle due to political activities. Yesterday, all main roads were blocked from 0400 to 1700, so we had to cancel clinics. People are upset at the road situation, because there is no maintenance.
Today, we had an ABC clinic scheduled in Lemoa so a bus brought fifteen ABC Children and a few others that needed a consult. As soon as I arrived to get the truck, the phone was sounding off from people who could not get a bus to come to clinic. I told them to be safe and no worries. We would find a way to make it work. Ana and Brenda called called Tomas to pick them up. Aura had to walk from Pacaja Xesic to Quiche to connect with Tomas. I went to Chichi to pick up Cesar.
We had a good clinic with the patients and families. One young boy, has had fever for fifteen days and we found the source of infection. He received antibiotics and his parents know to follow-up in their community in two weeks.
I want to introduce you to Agostin. He is only thirty-three days old and he was born with a cleft-lip and palate. Someone called me last week, to tell me they would visit so I was looking for them.
He was born at home and weighed seven pounds at birth. His mom is doing well and today, he weighed eight pounds.
This is Agostin, his mom and his sister. They will return to see us in a month to be sure that things are still going well. We may be able to slide him in on the Febuary clinic but we will reevaluate as we get closer.
We had a few patients that could not keep their appointment today due to the road situation. There were and still are 500 vehicles, plus an unknown number of people, walking to Guatemala City from Quiche! They are doing so in protest of the road situation. They are driving very slow to cause problems in the road and their goal is to get to the city and camp out in front of certain businesses and homes. They left Quiche at 0900 and at 1600 had only made it to Las Trampas..............unbelievable. We do not know what time they will return tomorrow. Our main hope is that there is no violence and we can continue tomorrow with our planned clinics.
Today, we had an ABC clinic scheduled in Lemoa so a bus brought fifteen ABC Children and a few others that needed a consult. As soon as I arrived to get the truck, the phone was sounding off from people who could not get a bus to come to clinic. I told them to be safe and no worries. We would find a way to make it work. Ana and Brenda called called Tomas to pick them up. Aura had to walk from Pacaja Xesic to Quiche to connect with Tomas. I went to Chichi to pick up Cesar.
We had a good clinic with the patients and families. One young boy, has had fever for fifteen days and we found the source of infection. He received antibiotics and his parents know to follow-up in their community in two weeks.
I want to introduce you to Agostin. He is only thirty-three days old and he was born with a cleft-lip and palate. Someone called me last week, to tell me they would visit so I was looking for them.
He was born at home and weighed seven pounds at birth. His mom is doing well and today, he weighed eight pounds.
We had a few patients that could not keep their appointment today due to the road situation. There were and still are 500 vehicles, plus an unknown number of people, walking to Guatemala City from Quiche! They are doing so in protest of the road situation. They are driving very slow to cause problems in the road and their goal is to get to the city and camp out in front of certain businesses and homes. They left Quiche at 0900 and at 1600 had only made it to Las Trampas..............unbelievable. We do not know what time they will return tomorrow. Our main hope is that there is no violence and we can continue tomorrow with our planned clinics.
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Sheri, I just got caught up on your blogs. I'm sorry that I have not done it sooner. I pray that things will continue to go well for you and all of the people that you are so blessed to work with!!!
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