Verse of the day: “The Lord gives me strength and makes me sing; he has
saved me. He is my God and I will praise him.” Exodus 15:2
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| Loving the donated gifts!! |
Another busy day at the clinic--same
place as yesterday since it is a larger village. The pastor was running a little late to open
the church for us, but he had a great excuse—“I slept better last night because
of the PT I got yesterday” ;-) I
continue to have a strong orthopedic patient population steady all day and I
just barely got to see everyone before the bus came. Despite limited time, a language barrier, and
mostly chronic pain situations, thankfully everyone left in less pain! I have only been able to spend about 20-30
minutes with each person in order to see everyone, but they are loving their
exercises (hint, hint to any of my patients reading this ;-). Once I looked up and the pastor was in the
middle of the floor practicing his bird-dog, haha! And since it is a very open area with
literally no privacy, I can look around and see others trying the exercises as
I am teaching. For a special mid-morning
snack we had traditional morocho. It is
a warmed milk with white corn, cinnamon, raisins, and a little sugar mixed in—perfect
timing to a morning that had turned a little chilly and windy!
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| Morocho |
We had a special treat after the
clinic today. Paul and Sarah made
friends with a local farmer playing soccer on Sunday and he invited us to see his avocado
farm. So we walked about a mile to his
house up and down a few steep hills, past a castle, past “El Alamo”, and
eventually to his beautiful farm. Except
it was not just avocados that he grew; he
also grows tree tomatoes, lemons, tea, coffee beans, passion fruit, estavia,
grapes, cucumbers, tomatoes, etc. We
went home with a plethora of things to try and of course fresh avocado for
dinner! Fun fact about avocados: it
takes about 4 years for a tree to start producing fruit. Once it does the first crop is only about 50
avocados, but the next crop is about 200!
They sell for about US$0.50 here.
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| Avacados |
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| Coffee Beans |
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| Tree Tomatoes |
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| Limes |
The foundation festival in town is
finally over and the town has a renewed peacefulness to it. No music or fireworks to fall asleep to
tonight, just dogs, dogs, and more dogs ;-)
Another busy day at the clinic--same
place as yesterday since it is a larger village. The pastor was running a little late to open
the church for us, but he had a great excuse—“I slept better last night because
of the PT I got yesterday” ;-) I
continue to have a strong orthopedic patient population steady all day and I
just barely got to see everyone before the bus came. Despite limited time, a language barrier, and
mostly chronic pain situations, thankfully everyone left in less pain! I have only been able to spend about 20-30
minutes with each person in order to see everyone, but they are loving their
exercises (hint, hint to any of my patients reading this ;-). Once I looked up and the pastor was in the
middle of the floor practicing his bird-dog, haha! And since it is a very open area with
literally no privacy, I can look around and see others trying the exercises as
I am teaching. For a special mid-morning
snack we had traditional morocho. It is
a warmed milk with white corn, cinnamon, raisins, and a little sugar mixed in—perfect
timing to a morning that had turned a little chilly and windy!
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