Our patient load is increasing by leaps and bounds. It is hard to ever leave our house because we constantly meet people who are just traveling in to see us. Some have come quite a long way on foot, or motorbike, and we simply cannot leave them unattended. One time we were over halfway up the shortcut road in the truck, when we met PaJew bringing his Mother to us. I felt so sorry for her that I told them I would jump on their motorbike with them and go back to BYT! BletJhaw had to wait right there in the truck.
That was a difficult ride with 3 of us squished onto one bike seat and going up and down those very steep, rough places. The poor motor bike was quite old also. Glad I am kind of small!! Only had to walk one time, plus the lady got the medical care that she desperately needed. I am so happy to care for these dear people!
People treated this week were lacerations to suture, scrub typhus, allergic reactions, bug in the ear, lots of tonsillitis, pharyngitis, asthma, bronchitis, COPD, otitis media, gastritis, abscesses, mouth infections, multiple aches and pains, tooth extraction, and a leach like water animal living up inside the nose of a 4 year old boy for 5 days! To say nothing of the lady we took to the hospital with numbness from the waist down, and all the routine type patients.
One Thursday we were headed to LaGlah on the motorbike for our routine medical work and Bible studies in that village. About halfway we pass a motorbike with 2 people traveling from GweeWaWaKee village. (That’s a long ways away). They stopped us and I saw disappointment written all over both of their faces. I know they were coming to see us; Now what shall we do? I thought about turning around and going all the way back home for these 2 people, but then I thought, why can’t we just treat the patients right here by the pathway from our motorbike in the jungle – we already had all the medicine with us, and this would save quite a lot of time. As we were treating them, 2 others swung in on their motorbikes from DaGwaDay, then 2 more from BlaGlow, until we had a big motorcycle clinic going on. We were writing the patient information and counting out the medicine on the motorbike seat. We did urine analysis and other treatments right there by the pathway. Everyone was happy and satisfied that they had gotten what they came for, and we still had enough time to complete our work in LaGlah!
