Rolling Waves

Greetings from Jamaica!  

Things have been going very well. On Monday, we worked at the Long Road clinic, and I found that I have a healthy practice established there. It was so great to have more than half of my 23 patients that day as return visits.  I'd seen them on previous trips, and so I could follow-up on their care. Super cool.

We had good weather, and were showered by grateful patients in gifts of mangoes and in chilled jelly coconuts. That's a young coconut that hasn't yet dried out to the form that we are probably most familiar with.  They lobbed off the top of the coconut and placed a straw inside, and we all drank our own coconut full of coconut water. It was such a treat!!

Since it was my birthday, I was serenaded on the bus on the way home and treated to a Red Stripe ... or two.  It was a great day!

Today, we saw patients at the Rock River clinic.  It was a super hot, humid day.  Hydration is your friend in those conditions! I saw 30 patients tucked inside a very small room, but I was very grateful to be inside the clinic, instead of outside under a tarp which is sometimes necessary. Plus, we had a nice, private, quiet area to work. I saw a wide range of conditons today and generally worked my buns off. In spite of that, I'm more awake and energized tonight than I've been yet. It's sometimes so rewarding to serve others, you receive so many blessings in doing it, that it doesn't feel like you're sacrificing anything at all.

Even though my brain is awake, I'm sure that I'll have no trouble sleeping deeply tonight! We'll be treated to a night without the AC, and my room is very near the ocean. So I'll be sleeping to the sound of rolling waves. Not too bad, mon!