Going Home
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Posted in INMED | No Comments »Today is my last day with Heidi and Matt in Santa Cruz del Quiche. Duane is flying my to Guatemala City tonight and then I fly out early in the morning. I had a great 4 weeks here, but I'm ...
Zona Reyna
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 Posted in INMED | 1 Comment »We're home! It's nice to be back at the house in Santa Cruz del Quiche after 4 days. Saturday and Sunday we spent at the Ficker's like usual, with our routine clinics in Canilla on Saturday and San Andres on Sunday. ...
Annie Leaves
Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in INMED | No Comments »Annie, the 4th year med student here, left to go back to the states today. We will miss having her around. This morning Heidi and I went to Hospital Buen Samaritano for her gyn clinic. We saw about 7 patients, ...
Ruins
Thursday, February 28th, 2008 Posted in INMED | No Comments »Today was clinic again at ASELSI. It was a pretty straight forward day with mostly routine type complaints. I did see one 16 y/o girl that reported 'fainting' about every 2 weeks. The description of these passing out episodes was ...
Tourists
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted in INMED | 1 Comment »For the last few days Matt, Annie and I were able to drop the missionary work and be tourists while Heidi and Isaac traveled to North Carolina for a job interview. It was a nice break. Monday morning we got ...
The Weekend
Sunday, February 24th, 2008 Posted in INMED | 1 Comment »Friday we went to Hospital Buen Samaritano and saw only about 6 patients. That is supposed to be an ob/gyn clinic. The first patient we saw was a 13 y/o girl who had about 28 days of vaginal bleeding. She ...
ASELSI
Thursday, February 21st, 2008 Posted in INMED | No Comments »Today was our morning clinic at ASELSI, the clinic set up by another American couple that has been here for about 20 years. Heidi does clinic here every Thursday morning. Today was not a very eventful day in clinic, with ...
Starting a new clinic
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 Posted in INMED | No Comments »This morning Regina, a Mayan women who is friends with Heidi and Matt as they have helped several of her children with cleft lip/palate, brought another family with a baby with cleft palate along with the 3mo old we saw ...
Chiminisijuan
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 Posted in INMED | No Comments »Today's clinic was up in the mountains in a village/town called Chiminisijuan (not sure of the spelling?). It's a clinic that Leslie and Katie Ficker usually do every Tuesday and today we decided to go and help out. Most days ...
Chicabracan
Monday, February 18th, 2008 Posted in INMED | 1 Comment »Today we had clinic in Chicabracan which is only about 20 minutes away. The clinic is held in a very small room that is part of a school. The school lets Heidi use the space every other monday. For this ...