Friday evening

What a day!  Our first case was an interesting one.....or rather, intense one I should say.  The little girl was fed by her grandmother and therefore, aspirated food into her lungs......needless to say with little resources it was an intense situation and we ended up using some of our emergency equipment once we removed the dust from it!  We were able to work well as a team and we handled it as best as we could.....she is now in Peds where we will continue to watch her over the next few days.

I also befriended a doctor named Jose who is probably 5 years younger than me......who has agreed to learn how we address wounds in the U.S.....there is a little boy named, Bairon, who has been in bed for a month!  He had a bug bite on his leg that became horribly infected and they have been doing tortourous dressing changes once a day.....now, they have agreed to medicated him for pain as well as start physical therapy to get him out of bed to walk!  Tomorrow I will be involved the Nicaraguan MDs in helping them remove the sutures, we hope, and see what wet to dry dressing changes look like.

There is so much to do, but so many people we have helped.  Each day we have learned is a new adventure....we take what comes!  Thank you for all of the followers and for your prayers.....

Melissa