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Val writing here: Today...it was VERY hot! It was well
over 100, so that meant in the tent where we held clinic
was easily 110+. After arriving late last night, the
team kicked in and helped get the 20 boxes unpacked and
sorted. Then today, we counted out and bagged up
100,000 vitamins in to 100 vitamins per bag. We also
counted out more than 1000 doses of worm medicine.
Experience last year taught us to print out our
instructions on to labels so we could just peel and
stick rather than hand write all of the instructions.
We ended with only 500 pre-printed instructions for the
worm medicine, so thanks to Chris, and our new friend
from Northern Ireland, Mark, the other 500 were written
out by hand. We accomplished all of that between
breakfast and lunch. Way to go Team Romania 2006!
After lunch, we headed up to Stefan cel Marie for our
first clinic. As usual, it was controlled
chaos...children everywhere! For clinic, we had Leann
greeting people and triaging with Rosse as her
interpreter. David's new bride, Rodica, is a nurse here
in Romania. She was a HUGE help today interpreting and
assisting Doc Steve. Andrea interpreted for Val. What
a good and exhausting time. In 5 hours we saw about 70
patients. Our youngest patient was a beautiful 8 week
old little girl, and our oldest patient was a 78 year
old grandma who is taking care of her young
grandchildren while their mom and dad were working. The
most serious thing we saw today was a serious external
ear infection in a teenage young man. We had a
wonderful opportunity to pray with and for another
teenage young man who was threatening suicide due to his
difficult home life. Most of the women suffer from sore
right shoulders due to holding their babies. The men
and young men suffer from back pain due to their hard
manual labor. Each village seems to have its own
special physical ailments they deal with. Stefan cel
Marie's special ailment seems to be throat, sinus and
ear infections. Most of the children are as well as can
be expected and their parents needed reassurance that
they are we and developing well. Every person -- adult
and child -- receive a pack of vitamins as they leave
along with any other medications Doc Steve ordered.
For the rest of the team activities, I am going to let
my daughter, Kari, tell you the rest of the story.
There was a small group of us that tried our best to
entertain the children as best we could. David and
Rodica played a few games, sang songs, and told Bible
stories until the clinic was set up and ready. A group
of 6 men went out to Tigmandru to work on the church out
there. While the clinic was going on we played with the
children, learning some of their games and songs. We
had some coloring pages and started face painting. The
children swarmed us as soon as we opened the case of
paint. They did not like it when we told them that the
smallest go first and they need to sit down and wait
until they are called upon to come up. The children
were crowding around so close to the three of us who
were doing the face painting. Linda came over a couple
of times to tell the children to get back and sit down.
All in all we had fun and the children had fun! It was
a good day!
Romanian team. |
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