Guatemala day 6

We woke up bright and early, well some of us that is. Blaise and Peter had a little trouble getting up this morning. Most of us were feeling much better from the night before. We ate a quick breakfast and packed up for our clinics.

Team 1(El Naranjo) 
Brynn
Aislinn
Kendall
Skylar
Tyler
Blaise
Cade
Matt

Our travel clinic headed out to El Naranjo, tucked away in the hills. We set up quickly and started seeing patients being careful to avoid the wasps nest that was residing in our registration area as Skylar is unfortunately allergic. While the line never seemed to get to long we had a busy day seeing 73 patients. I'm always impressed seeing some of our older patients and how mobile an healthy they still look for their age.  It's always fun to see an 80 year old walking in from registration having no idea of how long they walked just to get to the clinic.


Team 2(Los Robles) 
Michael
Katie
Cari
Jon
Eric
Ruth

The home clinic had a relatively mellow last day.  Cari was excited to take her turn nursing as she has spent most of her time this week helping with the pharmacy.  The clinic saw a lot of the adults that work at the orphanage as well as the kids that stay there. It was nice to be able to give back even just a little as they have been very generous and kind during our stay here.

Wrap Up 

We gathered at the end of the night to share memories and talk about our trip so far.   All of us have been struck by the vast difference between our cultures and how much more we wish we could do for the people here.  They have been so grateful even for the smallest things and resilient in the face of trials that most of us in the United States would not be able to handle.