First, please open a new window and check out Sheri's blog regarding the MET program as some of the students are giving her messages to post. Sheri also continues to post almost daily regarding the clinics in the highlands.
http://www.sheriinguate.blogspot.com/
Yesterday was a big day for Lisa as it was her last day in the surgery rotation. We celebrated yesterday afternoon at Chili's. Just 2 months left! She will now start her internal medicine rotations which will last for 2 months - June and July.
Her first month rotation will be in the infectious disease men's ward. She reviewed some the patients yesterday and has about 20 patients right now. Her patients will be patients with HIV, Tuberculosis, stomach bleeds and other infectious diseases. In one way this is good as she will learn more about the infectious diseases that affect the people of Guatemala and how they are treated; however, there are also risks, so please pray for safety and that everyone takes the proper precautions. She will share the ward with another intern so that will be helpful. This month will require much more study time as the upper year residents and physicians tend to pimp the students more and about any or all of their patients. Please pray that God will provide her knowledge and a good memory!
She goes on call today, so she did not get a day of rest after being post call Friday and working Saturday; however, next Sunday she will have off. We will most likely head to Mexico next Saturday afternoon to renew our visas and come back on Sunday - if we do not have any problems at the border. We kind of have 2 sensitive themes going on right now - one we do not want to ruffle the waters of the intern year to obtain her license and 2 we do not want to ruffle anything with immigration. So we are trying to stay under the radar but remain legal. If we go to immigration and request a special extension to the visa we may get questions as to why she cannot leave and why is she getting a license without a residency, etc. Everything we have heard indicates you can and we are volunteers so it should not matter - unless you get someone who causes problems. If we ask for a second day off with the internship, then it can also create problems as the other interns and residents will be short staffed in an already over-worked, under-represented environment and one does not want to cause problems with any of the residents or the attending physicians. So, since she has a day and half we think we can make a run to the border and stay under the radar which we prefer.
We were hoping to get a cheap flight to Mexico City as 2 weeks ago a round trip ticket was only $100, but now they are back up to normal - $300-$400. We could not book before as we did not know what her schedule would be. Either way it should work out - by car or by plane, although by plane would have been great!
We pray that everyone has a great Lord's day as to Him be the glory and the honor forever and ever. God is good!
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