Wow! What a day!

We had a very long day today, so this may be a very short post. We arrived at our clinic this morning and set up our stations. Registration and triage was in the church building, doctors were in "booths" under the overhang ourside, the pharmacy is in the classroom area behind the church building, and in prizes and hygene items were handed out in the courtyard. Martha Ellen also did a great job keeping the children occupied in the waiting area with crayons and hugs.

Ministers from local churches of Christ were on hand today studying the Bible with patients. Brenda Chavez and her family cooked us a wonderful lunch. The construction crew was able to get the roof on the second story of the classroom buiding, as well as most of one wall. We were very productive today, but it was also a day to work some kinks out for the next few days.

Probably our greatest struggle today was finding a way to make the pharmacy more efficient. In the morning, it became very backed up, but over lunch we restructured a little and it ran much, much smoother. Tim and Monica deserve very big pats on the back. They worked without breaks today, and by the time we started seeing patients again after lunch, they barely finished the morning's patients, so they only got to eat a quick bite standing up while working.

We saw roughly 220 patients today. One of the saddest cases we saw today was a woman with this leg wound. Dr. Adams called it Elephantitis with a secondary bacterial infection. He said it would be hard to treat even at home. We dressed it for her and told her to come back tomorrow to have the dressings changed.

Tonight, we attended worship again where a very dynamic speaker presented a lesson about Peter waling on the water to Jesus. He told the audience of about 200 that Jesus could reach out and take your hand right now just like He took Peter's and save you also. And he did exactly that for TWO MORE NEW CHRISTIANS! Yay! There were two more baptisms tonight, totaling 6 we have witnessed this week.

The tickets for tomorrow's clinic were passed out tonight and, although there were not quite as many distributed, we still expect tobe very busy tomorrow.