Warm showers!



Fridah with broom/mop



What a luxury, and no picture of this.  Why didn't I take more pictures?  The handle on the shower is same as our outside faucets, open small handle.  Turn it to far and you scald, but it's warm.  Door on the shower is wood, and we've suggested they put that on the outside of the bathroom and hang a curtain in the shower... see if that works.



We watched Fridah clean and she is pouring her wash water in the quarter size drain, floods everything.  The toliet is squirting inside and out, fills the bucket and overflows-- no wonder we have water on the floor all the time.



The few waiting for clinic

 Wednesday.  This day and Thursday are a big reward.  Maybe one of the best feelings I've had about being here.  We (Trinity United Methodist Church in Lincoln) and Jan and her fund raising.. have paid for a medical clinic.  (This is the "we" when I say we have supplies or money or such.)  So we get to this new church and there has to be 200 people waiting for the free medical clinic.  And of course we are later than we wanted to be (African time... whenever).  We take a while looking at facilities and getting it set up.  The Dr.s and pharmacists arrive later and we get to work.
The Dr. in charge decides the older people should stay on main level and we want the rest to come up to the hall.  Upstairs we get three Drs and all the pharmacy.  Line them up and it's a go.  We see 571 people today.  My job is to usher each person to a Dr's door, and make sure there is no time lag.  Mary is doing that with the other 2 Drs in lower level.  Gary is getting them in the door,  making sure they have their name on a small paper and the lines (to Dr and pharmacy) keep moving. At one point the Drs take a "tea" break and another time the pharmacy runs out of a certain drug, so we have some breaks.  Jan saw a lady selling bananas out front so Grace (our new friend) goes out and buys a few.  We have bananas, not tea. 

Waiting for Dr or pharmacy


I decide these children need some fun so I start the bump with them. Or the High Five.  Pretty soon they are smiling and so are the Moms.  I think they must come in batches because will have five kids lined up at the same time.  Anyway it makes the day go a little faster to see the kids having fun.

Thursday is clinic again. Today there are 791 patients, and we've put them all in the upstairs hall.  I'm the usher again, Mary is getting them to the Dr or pharmacy location and Gary is making all the other lines and people moving.  We've got this in the bag!   Everyone is patient and never tire or want special treatment.   They don't get upset if we put an older person or crying baby ahead of them. One lady brought a chicken under her arm.  We have also given a bag of seeds to everyone who comes.

When this is done we still have time to deliver chicks.  We get in the car, it has had the boxes of chicks in the seats loaded and ready.  Yep, as we move the boxes there is chicken "poo" all over.  So, try to clean, put down some plastic bags (small) and no breathing, but get the chicks delivered to a disabled group.

And we've decided to celebrate a job well done.  Off to the pizza parlor where we meet Grace and her twin sister Faith who was one of the Dr. techs.  Nice night.