Saturday, September 21, 2019

A crazy few days....

We spent Thursday night in Nashville and got to the airport at 3:15 AM— all proud of ourselves for being the first ones at the United ticket counter. And then we realized they didn’t open until 3:30. 😡. Three thirty came and went and the ticket agents started showing up around 3:45 but spent the next 15 minutes doing something other than waiting on customers. Not that I’m bitter or anything. Ha.

Nary a word was mentioned about the hurricane/tropical storm hitting Houston which is where we had a layover. Figuring we must be in the clear—and perhaps the weather wasn’t as bad as reported, we carried on to our gate. We boarded the plane and sat. And sat. And then the pilot informed us that there would be a delay due to “some weather” in Houston. He continues to update us for another hour and a half when it was decided that we all needed to deplane until the situation in Houston improved.

We asked if it was possible to put us on a different airline that didn’t go through Houston but they said no. So we waited. And waited. Finally at 2:30 PM I again asked if we could be rerouted. This time the answer was yes but the best they could do was put us in Atlanta by 9PM and then on to Honduras the next day. After 16 hours in the Nashville airport we boarded a plane for Atlanta. The rest of the trip went well—it just meant that we missed the first day and Pastor Mario, our friend in Honduras had to drive three hours to come and get us.


We then enjoyed a drive over the mountains from Tegucigalpa to Choluteca. It’s so beautiful. I never get decent pictures from the car but I still try. 🙄



We arrived and joined the team for dinner. They had seen 135 patients and a local church some of whom were sick enough that they had to be sent to the hospital. 

Today we went to another church, only 4-5 blocks from yesterday’s. We again saw 135 patients. We treated quite a few for diabetes - some knew they had it but weren’t taking medicine. A few needed a nebulizer treatment and many needed medicine for parasites but thankfully no one needed to be hospitalized. Chloe got her first taste of being on a mission trip and she loves it!  Molly is an old pro so just jumped in where needed. Today she was working pharmacy all day. Chloe did intake and took blood pressures, temperature, etc. I helped her for part of the day and then did urine tests. 




Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Off to Honduras! 🇭🇳

Molly, Chloe and I are leaving this afternoon to catch an early morning flight to Tegucigalpa, Honduras for a medical mission trip!  We have to be at the airport at 3:30 AM so we are staying in a hotel near the airport.

Excited to see our friends there and do medical clinics in Tegucigalpa and Choleteca!  We will be meeting my mom, sister in law, Meredith, and her daughter, Maddie, as well as some others from her church.

I will try to blog nightly if I can get a good enough WiFi connection.