Lisa started her first surgery call on Friday. During her regular work day which is 6am or so to 3pm she is working in the female post op ward. I had thought it was gyn but mainly postop general surgery for females. After her regular day she started call where she is assigned to surgical cases that present to the emergency room. As you can imagine her call is pretty crazy. Let's just say there are a lot of gun shot wounds and car accidents here. I think she told me about 6 different gun shot wound patients. On her rotations in the states, they may see one gun shot wound every 3 days or so.
In this new rotation, Lisa must also go to the hospital daily for patient follow-up and rounds. So on weekends she will be at the hospital each morning for 4 to 6 hours. Please pray that God continues to provide her the strength and endurance that she needs to keep up. This was much easier to do when she was in her early 20's. She is post call today so went to sleep around 4pm and must be back at the hospital by 5am tomorrow. That will allow about 12 hours of sleep in 3 days.
We continue to meet nice people and the residents / interns she works with are very good people. Today I met some local people who own radiology equipment that is part of a small private clinic and they offered to assist with patients that need CT scans. They would either reduce the price to Q350 (under $50) or could even lower it more for patients who are unable to pay. This is great news and I am sure we will have some patients to send their way. It turns out that this couples brother works with another medical ministry here in Guatemala that we have heard of, so they are very willing to help as they can.
On the Suzuki, the problem was not too expensive to fix - about $130. What happened was the battery lost it's cover and touched the top of the hood which is metal, causing a short circuit that fried the accelerator cable and the clutch cable. At first we had a bit of a scare as we thought we would have to change the clutch which involves quite a bit of labor. However, we were much more pleased when we found out all we had to do was change the cables. The short circuit that fried the cables is what caused all of the smoke. I am glad I turned the engine off as it could have continued to fry the starter and other parts. So now we are going to strap in the battery better and put some tire rubber above it that it never rubs against metal. :)
It turns out that this mechanic we work with was one of the founders of motocross in Guatemala back in the 1980's. This was interesting as my brother Gary, now passed away, use to race in the motocross back in the time when it started here in Guatemala. So he had some crazy stories he remembered that were not related to Gary but still brought back wonderful memories.
Have a wonderful Lord's day on Sunday and God bless!
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