Yesterday

6:15 alarm goes off...snooze for 10 minutes. 6:25 hit the showers. 6:45 downstairs for group breakfast- make my coffee. 6:50 Haul my laundry down to kitchen and start the most enormous loads that I can possibly cram into our washers. 7:00 back to my room waiting for students to come check out students on Urgent Needs List. 7:15-7:35 Help student sign up to sponsor student. 7:38 Email Director of school to inform her that we have a sponsor for her student and would like to see this said student Thursday night. 7:40 Head outside to help organize 3 buses for barrio teams. This takes at least 20 minutes and involves changing buses, locations, personnel and asking a billion questions to a million people. Give hugs to bus drivers and discuss plan for day with head translators. Review plans with Bienva and coordinate. 8:00 Print out waiver form (this also takes at least 15 minutes) and find student who needs to sign it. 8:30 Realize I have actually not eaten breakfast or packed my lunch. Run to kitchen, pack lunch and sip a bit more coffee. 8:35 Flip my laundry out of washers and throw everything together in the dryer. 8:40 Jump in bus and head to a campo of El Cercado with the great group of nurses/PA/students. 9:20ish Stop at Mennonite bakery to order some cinnamon buns for our return ride. 9:35ish Arrive to El Cercado clinic for potty break, clinic tour, check- in with Dr. Perdomo, hugs and kisses and lovin' on the kids waiting to see Dr. Perdomo who are in the Nutrition program, and meeting up with Edward, the guy who is going to accompany us to the barrio clinic. 10ish: Set sail for Los Campeches. 1020ish: Arrival to Los Campeches but bus is unable to climb very muddy hill with all of us inside. Climb out of bus and walk up small hill with chattering locals to a local school. 1020-1049ish Help set up barrio clinics, make announcements, unpack, organize. 1049ish- 12:15 Translate and help WONDERFUL provider see patients. 12:15ish: Perdomo arrives at the barrio clinic- move to assist him seeing patients and helping in pharmacy. 1:00 Lunch time- some dear kind soul has brought us rice. Heaven. 1:35 Start seeing patients with Dr. Perdomo again. 2:30 Perdomo leaves, assist with barrio clinic, receive bag of mangos from adorable 11 year old that I know and love from the clinic. Give some hugs to the cutest kiddies out there and sweet kisses from the dear old ladies that remember me from the last time. 3:05 Load up bus and leave Los Campeches. 3:15 Listen to our group sing in the bus, smiling widely, remembering the amazing patients. 3:30 pick up and eat cinnamon buns from Mennonite bakery. Delicious. 4:00 Receive message that another team member has fallen and is hurt and a translator is vomiting on another bus. 4:05 Make at least 4 phone calls to figure out problem, attain another vehicle, get an order set for an X-ray, discuss plan of care, plan to update Dr. Canario on situation 4:20 Make announcements on bus as to the plan for the evening. 4:30 Arrive at our clinic. Unlock pharmacy door and head in to catch up on hurt team member situation and update Dan. Drink delicious chinola smoothie that Dan is in the midst of making. 4:35-5:00 Catch up on emails, social media, etc. 5:05 Receive information that a team member is feeling terrible. 5:15 Visit said team member and he is indeed ill. Check in with group leader, meds given/injected. 5:18 Next team arrives home. Translator is indeed still vomiting- IV found and delegated to fabulous nursing group. 5:20 Get truck from Kari and put said team member who fell into the truck. 5:30 Set sail for an xray at Clinic across town. 5:35 Arrive at clinic- finally attain wheel chair. 5:35-6:00 Xray paid for and attained, thankfully no broken bones, return to clinic. 6:10-6:25 Check on puking translator- IV in place, stable, taken care of by Dominican doctor. Retrieve requested meds for Dominican doctor as well as one of our guards who has a cold and wants some cough medicine. Check on "feeling sick" team member who is also asleep. 6:25 All team members who have not fallen or are vomiting leave to eat out at the Dominican restaurant 6:30 Check on team member who has fallen- currently sleeping in her bed. 6:35 upstairs to finish emails. 6:45 Check in phone calls. 6:48 Heat up leftovers. 6:50 My friend P arrives who needs help with typing a paper for her class. 7:00 Two other friends arrive, one teary eyed from losing his grandfather today. Hugs. Sympathy. Empathy- realizing it's been about a year since MY Grandpa died. Sadness. 6:55-10:20 Type 10 page paper for P, with small breaks allowed for checking on now-vomiting team member who receives an IV at approx 7:30. 7:38 put on Phillies game that I know I won't be able to watch. Also retrieve my somewhat damp laundry from dryer at 8:00 and throw everything on my bed while I finish typing. 10:20 Put laundry away while P proof reads and check on both team members a few times. 10:30 Organize my desk/table and "sweep" my dusty floor. 10:45 Print out 10 page paper and change IV bag for sick team member. 11:00 Give P and M and W a ride home. 11:15 Arrive back in room. Put on jammies, plug in phone to charge. 11:30 Start thinking about my day. Smile. I am blessed. Start typing this stuff up. 12:04 laying in bed still smiling. I love my life. 12:08 Here we gooo..... Good night!