Tuesday, October 23, 2007

No getting locked in the prison today, just regular morning routine an then breakfast. After breakfast, I went down to the recovery room to help Liz get what she needed to so that she could go to La Fordge with us and see the waterfall. What a morning we had, my gosh, she tried Sonel’s IV again and was successful so we did not have to switch him to the pill equivalent of Maxipene, which is good because everyone prefers the IV. After we managed to get the IV and checked temps on the rest of the patients, we moved onto little Miss Anita. We had to take off her dressings today so that Liz and Shawna, a nurse that came in with the women’s group, could look at them and determine whether or not her legs could be unexposed. We had to photograph her wounds so that the ladies go email the doctors and get a second opinion. Neither of her parents we available so she had to go in with only me as he familiar face. I fell so badly for the patients because they have this mindset that everything is going to be painful until they actually figure out what step we are on and then everything is fine because it really isn’t painful. Anita is so funny because she likes to take control of all the removal so that she knows that it is not going to be painful. Man was she screaming up a storm anyway though, but we got through it and mama finally did show up, which helped a lot. After we got all her dressings changed, and fixed her with a sucker it was just about lunch time so we headed upstairs. We figured that the post-op patients that have been waiting could wait a little bit longer for us to eat. After lunch Liz went back down to handle what patients were left and I stayed in the dining hall to cook some popcorn for the Bible College students that Mike wanted to give them in between classes for a snack. It was a good time because I love cooking popcorn. After I cooked the popcorn I got ready to go to La Fordge for a VBS and to go to finally go to the waterfall. There were so many people going and gifts for the programs that the truck had to make two trips, so I opted to be on the second truck because Liz and I needed to email some of the doctors about a few of the patients in recovery room. So we emailed and I played with Anita for a little bit and then we headed to La Fordge. We got to the church and the programs had already begun and were well into being finished, so we just watched and took some pictures until they needed help and were done. I decided to go swimming early, so I walked across the grass from the church and waded out into the river with a few of the local children. When the programs were over, we loaded up the truck with the supplies that needed to go home and the few people that did not want to take the 30 minute walk to the waterfall. The rest of us started our journey accompanied by almost all 200 of the children that were present for the VBS. The walk was a little rocky and one lane most of the way, but the end result was WAY worth it. The waterfall came off of the mountain into this cove we you can swim and jump off a rock and you can even stand in the waterfall if you are brave enough. There is also an awesome river rock that is about 15 feet off of the water and that was a lot of fun, I even did a belly flop off of it in tribute to camp EPACHISECA. After about 30 or 40 minutes of fun, we headed back because it looked like it was going to get dark, and when we got back to the church we put 23 people on the back of the mission truck for the drive back to the mission. The trip back to the big river consisted of throwing candy off the truck to the children that were chasing behind us. Back at the mission it was about time for dinner so we got ready and ate. After dinner and devotions we were all tired from the day so it was an early night for most people. Peace.