more shots

 
 
 
Us with Jack Vasquez, our friend and guide, in the treehouse, and later at a waterfall..

Moyobamba

 
Susan and I took a little holiday last week, visiting some friends in Moyobamba. Here we are enjoying our jungle river tour breakfast of eggs and patacones, (fried bananas), before canoeing up the river to check out the wildlife.
Also here is Alida, mother of Lenin and Ludvig, two brothers very much involved with the mission. We saw waterfalls, hot springs, cold springs, a lots of green, a drastic change from Trujillo. Thanks to Agnes and Kelly for keeping the kids.

happy b'day Lulu!

 
Last Sunday, while at the Bakers for team lunch, we celebrated
Lauren's 4th birthday...she is doing well,
surrounded by her friends

home visit

 
We just got back from visiting Rocio Milagritos at home, actually not her real home, for she
lives several hours away in the mountains, now she stays at the home of some relatives, close to our clinic.
Julton, our new MD, cleaned her wound, and Sonia talked more with her family about the next medical visits and
their finacial situation. Right now they have paid their bills, the clinic contributing about $200 or so.
Hopefully soon we will know the official diagnosis and the plan for future treatment. Thanks for all who prayed, and please continue doing so..

After the surgery

 
This afternoon, three days after the surgery, Sonia and I went to visit Milagritos at IREN, the new cancer hospital in town. She seems to be doing well, just a little bored, since she is in a room with 6 beds and only one other is taken. No tv and nothing to read, I left her with a pen and some paper and told her to write something or draw some pictures. Tomorrow Sonia and I will return to talk with her doctor and the social services person about how much the family owes and the prognosis of the girl. Sonia shared the gospel and prayed for her, and I took a photo. Tomorrow I want to make another so you can see her beautiful smile. Continue praying and give if you can.

Update on the chica

The young lady had her surgery today, and Abel Vasquez and I donated blood, which was
subsequently transfused, and they requested more, so Agnes is on deck to donate.
They will next do the pathology on the removed tumor....
Please be in prayer...

Good times/Bad times

 
 
 
 
Recently Julton Tomanguillo and Julie Rodgers were married here in Trujillo. Julie is a former intern from W. Virginia
and Julton is our new MD at the clinic, a young man recently out of med school. We went to their wedding and can
tell God will bless them and use them in a great way both here in Peru and in the states.
In the midst of this joy we have always the sick with us. The photos are of a young girl brought down by her father
from the mountains in need of health care. Sonia our OB nurse did the initial exam and sent the girl of 14 years for an ultrasound. The results were not good; she has a rapidly growing tumor on her ovary. You can see from the photos how much her abdomen is already distended. So we have collected some money, and Saturday I and Agnes will go donate some blood for her surgery on Monday. We expect the total cost of all her tests and hospitization to be about $1000, money which the clinic does not have. A television channel came out to film her and request donations, so I thought I would do the same. If you would like to help write a check to CMS and designate it "Clinic patient fund".
And please pray, the dianosis is not good for this young girl...even with the surgery.