Finished

We have finished the medical mission and have moved on to R&R in Antigua. We did our last case at 6:30 Friday evening because the little girl had eaten. She had a mass on her nose (dermoid, it looked like) so it didn't take too long. We spent Saturday morning packing up..... and I mean PACKING UP EVERYTHING. HELPS Int'l keeps supplies in G. City, so they brought a truck. We inventoried everything and loaded up some stuff to go back to the US, and alot to go to G. City. That included OR tables, anesthesia machines, stirrups, suctions, suture, gloves, etc. etc. etc. They keep some for the next incoming missions and distribute some to outlying hospitals and villages. It's quite a well organized system.

Sat. afternoon we got to go to nearby Mayan ruin made into a park and had some fun climbing pyramids untill the rain started. The vendors like the rain, I think because their open air shops are covered so we took refuge under them and, naturally bought stuff. I'm going to make a Guatemala shadow box for my office so found some things for that.
We're standing in the photo w/ Dr. Imler, the General Surgeon who was the team leader. He was wonderful to work with.

Tomorrow we're taking a tour to Copan in Honduras to see Mayan ruins and hopefully we'll have a well informed tour guide. There are ruins scattered from the Yucatan on the Atlantic across Belize, Honduras and Guatemala. It's incredibly interesting, especially knowing we were treating the Mayan descendants.