Checking out

The word(s) of the day was lo ultimo (the last). It was our last day of surgery. We have follow up clinic in the morning, taking out stitches, packs, drains, checking wounds, etc. The breeze was nice today. It is the first day I didn't sweat all day, but the down side is the wind is too strong for planes to land and it's predicted to last 3 days. Since we're due to leave on Saturday we probably won't make it Managua by plane that day so we made an executive decision to drive. We'll leave after lunch on Friday. It's a 14 hour drive when the conditions are good. And I think they are good??? They left today with of the California team that stayed with us till today. The driver will be extremely tired. The Oregon team will travel with us on the church school bus. They told us to take toilet paper with us and snacks. It looks like there won't be any really good rest stops. They say it is really bumpy. We need to make the plane in Managua before noon on Saturday so we have almost 24 hours to get there. Pray for us.

Today I did an otoplasty to fix a deformed ear and some smaller cases. I took more packing out of Quillermo's nose so he can breath out of one side now. He seemed really happy about it. His mother looks a little like the lady in the video photo. She was wandering around saying goodbye to us all and wondering if he needed more medicine, etc. We gave her a package with rice beans and powdered milk. He has to hang around next week to get the rest of his packing out. I'm afraid to remove it so Dr. Taylor will start advancing the pack next week slowly. I gave him a bottle of the illegal vitamins with iron the government didn't allow us to bring, but slipped through customs anyway. He seemed glad and so did his mom. We'll let him out of the hospital until Tuesday but he can't go home. Home is a 2 hour drive (bus), then 2 hour horseback ride so it might be hard to get right back if he started to bleed again.

We are spending this evening sorting all our packed stuff. We're finding things we didn't know we had and couldn't find all week. We found lots of nasal packing in a leftover California tote. Hmmm that could've come in handy the other day.............

We may not blog much tomorrow unless we get to Managua in really good time and will go to the hotel and shower before we get on the plane. We should be home Saterday evening to Omaha about 8 pm.

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