Introduction

This blog will follow me through my travels and experiences working at a clinic in Quetzaltenango (Xela), Guatemala. The clinic sees primarily indigenous (Mayan) patients in a rural mountain community. More than half of the patients are children, and the clinic is expanding its population even more to include more adults. Much of my struggles actually come from the rather universal theme of being a new healthcare provider, in my case, a new nurse practitioner. I'll also try to post plenty of travel stories to keep people entertained, and share some more cheerful stories. I apologize if there's an overkill of clinic stories. Sometimes it helps to tell the stories, even if only for my own sake.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Mobile Clinics: Daycare #8


We seemed to get a little lost walking to daycare #8.

But when we finally got there, we found a bunch of smiling kids.

We saw a few more babies here than in other places. Both of these were kids I saw (above and below).

As you can imagine, with so many kids in one place, it's not all work. We play some games and hang out with them while we're setting up.

We got a warm goodbye from these kids. The whole group trotted out to the front to see us off!

As we were trekking out, we got a good look at some of the houses in this area. When you see these it's easy to see how so many of their illnesses are related to the environments, because of lack of clean air, clean water, and good sanitation systems.
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