We arrived In Piura and are settled in to our room at Santissimo Sacremento Parrish where we are staying. We met Padre Joe and other Americans here doing mission trips. There is a premed student from California who will interpret for me in clinic. She said that they have a lot of interesting patients to be seen. An internist just left here and designated patients with Orthoopedic problems for me to see.
Tomorrow we will go to an orphanage and a small village thirty miles from here. The Parrish now has a clinic and a full time nurse. In addition to the Marquette University nursing students there is a couple from Oklahoma City that are friends with Dr Cupps in-laws in Oklahoma City. There is also college student here from Creighton that went to the same high school as Kelly. Her parents are friends of Kellys sister. It's a small world here in northern Peru. There is another college student from OU here and her sister was on our flight as well. She hurt her hip last week prior to arriving here and was seen by Dr Pascale in OKC who I trained under and is OSU's team physician.
In addition to working in the clinic here Padre Jose has a day lined up where I will build a house with Kelly and the boys. I'm excited about that. It will be a unique experience for our family to have the privaledge to construct another familie's home
Tomorrow we should be able to post pictures
It sounds like a fantastic experience! I am loving following along! This world is SO small
ReplyDelete!!!! Wow! Abby is excited to be able to show her kindergarteners pictures and some of your stories on the overhead and teach them about Peru!