Dominican Trip ( Day 6)

Wednesday, our third medical day, we piled into the buses, loaded the truck, and drove 1 1/2 hours to the Santo Domingo dump. Here we saw the worse medical issues any of us had ever seen! And you won't be seeing it because I couldn't stomach it long enough to take a picture and I didn't want that visual reminder either. Maybe I should have taken a picture of it all. I don't know. 

The poverty level was worse than I'd ever seen as well.

Amanda about to give her testimony...

All the kids up front...

Brooke giving her testimony...

This was the view from the top of the church we did medical in. If you click on the picture to make it bigger, you can see Santo Domingo on the horizon.

Three nurses and a translator...

Krista, Sherry, Brenda, and Catherine.

Racheld (walking in the background),
Mignelis, Brooke, Sherry, and Dr. Bob.

Getting an EKG done...

Praying for the patients...

One of the translators reached for my camera and said, "You have been taking pictures of everyone else. Let me take a picture of you!" So he did. ; )

Brooke holding a baby. I think she was 9 months old, but I can't remember her name...

After we opened some of the wounds the smell was so bad that a few of us had to wear face masks.

A better view of Santo Domingo...

Behind the church was an area where some people were recycling plastic. There were soooo many flies down there!

Isn't she so cute?!

They loved Lee's watch and were pushing all the buttons!

Dr. Bob is the missionary Doctor that lives in the D.R. so when the nurses had a problem or didn't know what to do they would call him. Sometimes though it was very loud and hectic so somebody had the idea at one station to make this cute sign to hold up if they needed him...

Donnalyn, Audrey, and a translator.

After the doors were shut there were still so many that wanted to see the doctor.

Evangelism...

Stephen and Felix.

Kika being silly.

Hannah.

This little girl's pants just slipped right off! It was really funny to see!

Sweet Lauren, the SCORE medical intern, holding a baby.

I thought this picture was really funny...

Praying for the pastor of the church...

A group outside as we were leaving.

We treated that guys bandaged leg. His was one of the worst.

More of the plastic recycling....

On the way home from the dump we stopped at a place beside the ocean to take a group picture and stretch our legs.

Our group picture....

Angela, Cliff, and Savanna.
...and Dad...

Mignelis, Brooke, and Felipa, the oreo.
They were laughing at how white we were.

Dominican Trip (Day 5)

Day five, Tuesday, was a medical day as well. It went pretty much like the day before except that it was a lot smoother since we had gotten more familiar with everything and how it all worked.

This is a picture of a random artistic thingy in a city that we went through a lot. It was really weird. Haha! 

Below is the ally that everyone had to go through to get to dental and evangelism. It was really funny going through it and having someone else come through from the other direction at the same time! Traffic jam!

Sweet Audrey.

 This is the group waiting outside with Kristy (in the pink) giving her testimony.

 Dad giving his testimony...

 A nurse in deep concentration, filling out a prescription...

 A nurses station...

 The pharmacy. It may look like some of them are not doing anything, but they had their very fast paced times as well!

 This is Dr. Denise's station where Dad worked some. Dio is their translator/helper.

Do you see the bag next to Dio's hand marked "candy"?
Yeah, He loved his candy and was very protective of it! Haha! He was great!

 Lee's back...

We obeyed...

 This is a lady who was praying to accept Jesus as her Lord and Savior. It was wonderful to watch all the conversions!

 Me, Lee, Savanna, and Hannah... We all had such a good time together! To bad Brooke wan't in the picture!

No, I wasn't feeling sick. I was trying to make a really
 baggy shirt look a little better.... I guess it didn't work very well... Good grief...

 A young boy accepting Christ...

 Amanda and the Creole translator all tuckered out. He told us he works in the night and works in the day and sleeps on the way.

 Dio...

 Lee giving his testimony. Since he knows some Spanish he thought he would try not using a translator and see if the Dominicans would understand him. Well, I guess they did because when the translator asked, they said yes and started cheering for him! That made everyone happy, especially Lee!

 Stephen, the evangelist, with the kids....

 A women who just got saved with her daughter, the translator (Felix), and Stephen....

 Savanna!

 A young girl listening to the gospel...

Each evening we would have devotions, either with Score or just our group. This is a picture of a SCORE night. They were playing some weird game with two teams where the "Mommy" is trying to get the "baby" to eat the baby food and drink the coke before the other team. It was really funny to watch, but I'm very glad I didn't have to be in it!

Eddie ( SCORE employee and Dominican), random guy in green shirt,
 Keven, random girl with blonde hair, and Brooke.
Keven's team won.
And he shook the coke before opening it...

Dominican Trip (Day 4)

     Monday, our first medical day. We had to get up very early and eat so we could head out with our 12 translators to the village and convert a church into a clinic. Nobody knew what this first day would be like, even those of the team who had been last year and done a medical day. So we set up eight stations. There were a few nurses stations, a Pharmacy, a dental area, and an evangelism station. I worked in the dental area with Amanda. I even got to give several fluoride treatments later in the week when Amanda was busy or we had a lot of kids and we wanted to hurry up. This is how medical days usually went: We arrive and set up the church after which two of the team go out with a translator and give their testimonies to the waiting crowd. Now that they have heard the gospel, we can start accepting patients. In triage, the patients are weighed, blood pressure was taken, and any information needed was acquired. There they waited until a nurses station was ready to receive them and they were diagnosed and given the best treatment possible with our limited resources. Before they left, the nurses would often pray with the patients and give them tracts, 2,100 of which where given out in the week. From there they went to the pharmacy to have their prescriptions filled, then over to the evangelism station to hear the gospel again. During this time, 21 souls were saved in the 3 1/2 medical days. If any of the patients had children ages 5-12 they would come to Amanda and I to get fluoride treatments. I was amazed at how bad their teeth where! Some didn't have a single tooth that wasn't rotten! There where only a few who didn't have a cavity. As soon as their prescriptions were ready, they would get them and learn what to do with them, and then leave. By the way, we had the most amazing Pharmacist! She was so busy and yet was so patient with everyone!

Brooke, Audrey, and Jennifer.

This is the church right after we arrived. 

The nurses gathered around Dr. Bob as he tells them what to do for the day.

The stations before any patients had come.

Fast asleep. So cute!

Amanda!

The waiting area.

A very dehydrated patient

Amanda with all the kids looking on.

Kristy and a baby.

This little boy had TWO lolly pops he was sucking on! So funny!

Dr. Bob had to remove this lady's infected toenail. She was in so much pain as he gave her the numbing shots. It was really sad to watch!

There was a group of teenagers, this guy in particular, who were talking to some of us in broken English as we tried to talk to them in very broken Spanish. Ha ha! We had many good laughs with them! They love having their pictures taken!

Even though it's blurry, I love this picture!

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