Clinical day numero dos

Today was a long day, beginning with a quick breakfast in San Pedro, and then off to La Ceiba for our clinic. The bus ride was a solid few hours, with a stop for snacks and coffees and some fresh sliced pineapple from the side of the highway. We arrived to our clinic about noon, unpacked, set up in rooms without lights and experienced a decent amount of confusion about who should be where. Although it was very agreed upon that the drunken villager who hid machetes should not be there, it took a decent amount of back and forth between the pastor searching for them and me coaxing him to go and wait in a far away place to move past that hiccup. Then it was a homemade lunch of pastelitos (Honduran empanadas) and baleadas, and then it was tshow time. One hundred and fifty six numbers had been given out, and with family members we saw about four hundred patients. Today's group was definitely a tougher one than the last few. It started with a man who, as he was falling off the porch, said he could not see, suffered from diabetes and was going home because his number was too high, so we moved him up. It was followed by a man who was in a bike accident, and received wound care and was stitched up. Bob and I got on the floor to teach some of the patients yoga to relieve muscle tension. Marylynn and Jenn activated a safety plan and prevented a fall, with Sean as their witness, as an old lady attempted to drop her pants in the middle of a room of a dozen people. Pam distributed dozens and dozens of glasses, and will be ready to interpret by tomorrow ;) Korey joined us, straight from graduation and the airport, and threw himself right into clinic. The wonderful kids team had the niños chasing giant inflatable balls, getting tattooed and looking adorable in new sunglasses. A little after six we were back on the bus and moving to our hotel in La Ceiba, where we ate, settled in, played soccer, enjoyed dipping our toes in the pool by the bar and showering. It's off early tomorrow to do it all over again in the town of Sába!