Nicaragua Medical Mission 2010

East Ridge has so many things to offer our family including a wonderful preacher, involved and caring elders, families our age, tons of children, and opportunities in mission work. Every year we listen to people come back from their mission work and describe how their lives have changed. Well this year I got to experience this for myself. I was blessed enough to be able to go on our medical mission. There were 85 people total and around 25 from East Ridge that went on the mission. It was definately a life changing experience.

Here is a walk through the clinic that we had set up. This is what the line was like all four days that we were there. These people waited for hours to get into the clinic in the heat and rain. It got a little crazy at times with people trying to pass in line. Nothing can prepare you for this. It made me stop and thank the good Lord for being able to walk into an air conditioned doctor's office that I am in and out of within an hour. Yet, these precious people were so thankful to get to come in and be treated and it didn't matter to them how long they had to wait.



The first step was to register. These four young people are all fluent in Spanish. They were excellent!

I worked in triage which is a fancy word for weighing patients, taking their temperature and blood pressure. I weighed every patient that came into the clinic that week, but not alone...this was my weighing partner, Ben.




This is the whole triage team after a long day in the clinic.

The BEST part of that job was that I got to hold every baby that came in! They were the most beautiful babies with their dark hair and dark eyes. PRECIOUS!

After the patients came through triage, they waited to be seen by the doctor or one of the many nurses that came with us.


There was also a dentist on site who performed extractions.

The patients went through a hygiene class.

If needed, the patients were given a pair of eyeglasses.

Here is a picture of the pharmacy. You would be amazed at the medicine they had in here. It was just like a real pharmacy.

The last station was benevolence. Each person was given three outfits, shoes, rice and beans.

Here are the statistics from our trip...

Bible Studies 211
Baptisms 23
Patients 2164
Registrations 2207
Dental Patients 208
Extractions 147
Pharmacy Patients 2175
Prescriptions 7989
Eyeglasses filled 522
Head Scrubs 52
Benevolence 2259
Children’s Classes 199
Teen Classes 45

God is good!