Another update from the team leader. Day #3
FoH, We expect four full days of clinic (think of the eye doctor office) and OR (that surgery place) this week. As we began our day, we could peer from the second floor roof down on dozens of patients standing next to a chain link fence waiting to be let into the two acre compound in which we eat, sleep and work while in Saint Louis du Nord. Today was full indeed. Rain in buckets full fell. For the OR, less of an issue, but taking patient histories while inches of water rush near are feet, just beyond the overhang produced some diversion from the task. The Strait of Tortuga half mile north of us was tainted with brown silt washed down from mountain streams. We know many of our patients trudge across streams to make it here today. The A Scan machine, essential to measuring optical characteristics, was on the blink. Cannot progress without it. About the same time a Phaco cataract surgical machine failed. Time and again it was reboot, restart, turn off then on. We had prayer offered on these accounts. Soon both performed as they should. Restart, restoration! All told, this full start day produced 30 surgeries and about 145 patients processed. This is a great day for an efficiency-sized team. Part of this is because of the attitudes brought in from the mainland. We moved with obstructions, avoided obstacles, made a clean beginning. More tomorrow and more rain, as the rumbles in the distance remind us. The God who makes thunder is the one we are here to serve. M Lancaster
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