Helene Honduras

Helene Honduras
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Friday, May 26, 2006

Some Helene Team photos
taken at Parrot Tree in February....
Alisa, Sus, Sheila, Joe, Marjie, Camas, Jessica, Emily, Christy, Abbey, me
here we are, some of 'the girls' in Larry and Sheila's house

In March (April?) out at Pidgen Keys - Paul has arrived!
Our most recent staff pic, taken the day Marjie had to leave us...
(April 29th 2006)
Joe, Marjie, Sheila, Larry, Camas, Paul, Alisa. In front: Emily, me & Sus

This is about what we have to work with now, minus Sus, and for now, Marjie... we are few, but we are strong!

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Monday, May 22, 2006

Here are just some miscellaneous pictures from around...

Here are some examples of Esslyn's nail artwork. The point of teaching her to do this is partly to make some money for her family to live on, but just as important is that of teaching her to work, to stay with a 'job', to save her money to be able to buy what she needs when there isn't enough work to do, and to run a business, at least as much as she can in the environment she lives in. It seems that many of the islanders are seeing the potential profitability of this business, and are wanting to do it also.
Here we are taking some short term missions girls out for a hike in the jungle, we do like the STM groups to have some fun while they're here to work!!
Here I am with Ewings, he'd just caught this iguana 15 minutes prior, and I just loved seeing it up close! (so of course had to take a picture) They are such prehistoric looking creatures!

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This is the picture posting for my Honduran hospital experience journal, this really only gives you a taste of a 3rd world country hospital.

Here's the reception desk, there was a window, but it seems only those with an appt can go to that window...but we thought we did have one! Alisa was invaluable, as there was very little english spoken here, and John speaks even less spanish than I do!!!
This is stage 2 waiting area, after you are called to triage, then given another number, you come and wait outside one of these doors to see a doctor, very few places to sit for the number of patients!
This was a sweet little lady who sits outside the double doors that go to the inpatient wards. She sells little bottles, has her left leg amputated because of diabetes. She lives at the hospital because all her family is gone now. The staff find food to give her, but I don't think she's officially a patient any longer.
This is a picture of the emergency room, but the inpatient wards were very similar, many beds having just a curtain to separate them from the hallway
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The machines are old, to put it nicely. To be fair, this one was out in the hallway outside of the X-ray room... not quite sure what it is?

Alisa showing her expertise with being an X-ray tech!
here's the working X-ray machine...think I'm kidding about old equipment?
John stood waiting, us to right there in the room, while the tech went and pushed the button behind a small lead apron...not warning to Alisa and I
OK, we found this sign to be just hilarious, maybe we were just tired, but doesn't this "nurse" look just a little too sensual?? She sure has those big red pouty lips going on!
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Monday, May 08, 2006

More La Ceiba pictures

'chew' shopping in downtown Ceiba at the street vendors. I really had fun doing this! We purchased about 45 pairs of shoes for the school kids
Here's the pile we came up with! It was definately a challenge getting them back to the island!
Here is a shot of the 3 of us girls, dressed up for our dinner at Applebee's
Going Hollywood! Just the 5 of us to come back home, the pilot asked us to sit up front for proper weight distribution!
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Here are some shots from our La Ceiba weekend

Just one of the street vendors, he saw me with my camera and motioned for me to take a picture. Then, I should have guessed, asked for money for taking the picture.
You think going to the bank is a pain in the states?? Here are the Saturday morning lines at the mall, 4 banks in this corner. This was after the doors opened to allow half the people waiting into the lobbies! It is typical to expect to take 2-4 hours to go to the bank!
Another chance to do some worship, out by the pool of our hotel
A little plane at the end of the tarmac was ours, just for the 5 of us. For those of you who know my past fear of flying, I am so very thankful that fear has been erased!! The brakes squealed, the cabin smelled like sour gasoline, but the pilot was great and we arrived in Roatan just fine.
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Just a few somewhat random pictures from the work I do, and who I do it with....
Here I am with Loveland, suturing up Raisa's toe, she was a challenge to convince that I was trying to help her, but once the Lidocaine kicked in, she was a perfectly calm little patient.
...and here is the result, 12 sutures and 30 minutes later!
Miss Marjie and I, hanging out on the front porchDown on Roatan, working with Larry on coordinating and orienting the team we'd just brought in, got a quickie "how to" on the cell use.
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