Monday January 23

Jan 23

Dinner on Sunday was a chicken curry soup with rice, veggies, fruit and flan.  We were all tired but had a chance to talk, play some games and relax.  Our guest house is wonderful – we have terrific accommodations with a large common area where we have our meals and a large living area.  Our host and hostess are from Florida but are here many weeks of the year.  They are going out of their way to make us feel at home, in fact they are spoiling us!  The husband is a family practice doctor and the wife is a dentist. 

Our team had a busy day today.  We had breakfast around 6:20 which included scrambled eggs, refried beans, muffins and toast, and several types of fruit, juice and coffee.  Some of us went to the hospital and the rest of the team ran a clinic outside of the hospital.  The OR team was busy:  we did 9 surgical cases today:  gall bladder removals, hernias, an appendectomy and a few others.  Our OB docs and neonatologist were in the delivery room and newborn ICU caring for patients.  The primary care team saw 375 patients.

For dinner we had spaghetti and meatballs with salad and fruit and chocolate cake for dessert to celebrate one of our team member’s birthday!

It was a long tiring day, but I think we felt like it was quite worthwhile.  We already know of about nine OR cases tomorrow, so we are ready for a good night’s sleep!