After a good night sleep, we wake up fresh and energized and ready for the day’s work. Patients arrive and line up in front of the clinic. We get a souvenir picture with Russ then we have breakfast and we start the day working fast and furious.
Here is our souvenir picture of Russ and the two of us, bright and early before we start our workday.
Arriving at the clinic in Haiti, Dr. Kondot gets set to work immediately. We were not planning to work today, we just wanted to unpack the supplies, set up the operating room, check out the microscope and see how the sterilization station operates. But as soon as we enter the main area of the clinic, patients are waiting to be looked at. So we get down to business and start patients examination on the spot.
One patient after another, Dr. Kondrot begins one day early I guess. We are already on the ground, we might as well work!
We have a patient whose eye pressure is 60! The clinic staff is hoping dr. Kondrot can do something for her.
Looks like we have to lower her pressure right away!
Continue reading “Haiti Mission Trip: Setting up the operating room”
We are now getting ready for our next trip. Haiti, Croix Des Bouquets, working out of the facilities of Living In Faith. We are very excited.
We connect with Russ Montgomery to coordinate out flight tickets, we are planning to fly out together as Russ is a pro at getting in and out of Haiti and wants to make sure we have a safe travel, that our supplies will get in and not get stuck at custom and of course watch over our security while we are on the ground in Haiti.
We invite Russ over for a home-cooked meal and work on plans for the upcoming trip
After a quick nap and some much-needed rest, we get ready for our celebratory dinner with the local Rotary club members at La Traviata Italian Restaurant in Celaya.
Continue reading “Celaya Mexico Mission trip: Mission accomplished!”
After a good night rest, we start day 2 bright and early as we still have quite a busy workload for day two. Breakfast at Miss Peggy consists of scrambled eggs and local tropical fruits. If we can finish all the cases for all the patients that show up today at the clinic, it would make us very happy.
The waiting room is full of people waiting for us as we arrive.
We arrive at Del Bajio International Airport at 9:30 PM. We breeze through custom without any issue. We meet Miss Dora from the Celaya Rotary club who has a big sign “KONDROT” with her. She can not believe we get through custom so fast. Last year, the doctor was held up at custom for three and a half hours with questions about permits to bring in all the supplies. I was prepared and printed out multiple copies of our invitation letters and permits and made sure we have everything in order in case we get help up.
Here we are getting ready for Celaya Mexico.
The supplies from SEE arrive at our clinic. Four huge boxes first and I manage to transfer them all into 3 big suitcases. It is quite a challenge but I use all the tricks known from all the years of traveling to stuff them all neatly into the expandable bags while keeping a keen eye out for airlines’ the weight limit of 50 pounds per bag.
We received a pallet of essential vitamins and nutrients to be distributed on our next mission. Nutritional deficiency is one of the leading cause of blindness. Thank you, Douglas Lab!
Thank you, Douglas Labs!
The Thank You messages for Dr. Kondrot are pouring in. Here are a few clips.
Continue reading “A big Thank You from the patients in Liberia”
