A Week with Erin in Guatemala!

Well, many of you may (or may not) be thinking, "What the world has Erin been up to down in Guatemala the last two months without the summer mission teams around?" If that is you, then today is your lucky day! =) With the next few blog posts, I hope to give you a little taste of what a typical week down here looks like for me - although no one week is "typical" compared to another!
On Mondays and Tuesdays, I usually stick around the mission base and help out with various projects. Most of my time, however, is spent in the clinic, putting my Hope College nursing degree to good use! Some days, I will conduct consults and prescribe medications to the patients that come to our in-house medical clinic with our other nurse, Yojana. Some of the patients we actually are helping to treat long term. The following picture is of a little boy name Johnny who had numerous seizure every day for about three years or so. However, with the treatment from our clinic, and the healing power of Christ, he no longer seizes! Now he just comes to our clinic to receive his vitamins.


Other days, I may spend some time organizing the clinic and its medications in a way that is most conducive to the system under which we operate. A lot of my time is also spent calling patients as part of our medical follow-up program, which you will hear more about later! Until then, enjoy a few pictures of some of the other patients we have seen in our clinic. Stay turned for the next edition of "A Week with Erin in Guatemala" when we learn about what Erin does on WEDNESDAYS!!! =) Haha, I know, the suspense is killing me, too! =)