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At the end of March Kathy, Dave’s sister, visited with a team from her church. First Baptist Church of Norphlet, AR, sent a team down for their second trip here. They brought with them a bunch of donated supplies and medicines for the hospital and came with hearts to serve. They worked hard insulating and hanging a false ceiling, placing bathroom fixtures, wiring, and cleaning to prepare the new, two bed, Labor and Delivery suite at the hospital. Currently the hospital has only one Labor and Delivery room. This has got us into a number of sticky situations when we have two or three ladies walking the halls in labor. More than once there have been two simultaneous deliveries and only one proper L&D room! Their hard work was a much needed blessing! We were super excited to have family coming to serve and visit. We were able to spend some nice time with Kathy, her daughter Amber, and Amber’s husband Ryan. Thank y’all for coming!
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Sometimes our teams are just one or two people coming to serve in a variety of different ways.
- In early February we helped to host Ben and Emily Abeyta, a delightful young couple who are both family physicians in their second year of residency. We really can’t tell you how many young physician residents and medical students we’ve had pass through our home over the years here. Some we’ve hosted, but most we’ve come to know as they’ve passed through.It has been such a blessing to get to know these young, idealistic, new doctors who are prepared to honor the Lord through missions.
- The Breckenridges came to serve at the hospital for two weeks in March. On this their fourth trip to serve at LDL, Mike, a retired Pharmacist, helped inventory the pharmacy in preparation for the implementation of our new hospital computer system. Kathy is a fluent Spanish speaker who has an evangelistic heart and speaks boldly for the gospel. At the hospital she worked in the counseling office and taught public health to the patients in the waiting room. She also taught the Word of God at a couple of local churches and bible studies. This couple has also been a real encouragement to us.
- The first few days in March we hosted a two-man construction/engineering team that included Jerry Caffey, a Cornerstone Foundation board member and Mike Everett, an Electrical Engineer. They came down to scout out work for a large hospital infrastructure improvement project. Their quick trip involved a number of planning meetings involving the remodeling and building expansion of the hospital as well as self-sustainability projects for the hospital. It was great to spend time with Jerry, a friend that we met while serving in Mississippi.
- Dr. Renee Kusler’s family came to visit her and help with various projects at the hospital in March. Although we did not host this team we did spend a good amount of time with them. You see, Dr. Renee’s family lived in Greeley, CO and we attended the same church! Isn’t it a small world? Renee’s mom, sister-in-law, and Aunt spent a whole morning in the Eyeglasses Clinic helping me inventory all of the wonderful donated reading glasses the clinic has received this spring.
- Debbie Spilde and her husband, Al, came to visit LDL in early April. Debbie, a retired Respiratory Therapist, played a key role in writing a grant for the hospital to receive a much needed ventilator. She came to visit the hospital and to train the doctors in the proper use of the ventilator, but little did she know how God would use her. During her stay a critical patient arrived who was in desperate need of a ventilator. She was able to give hands-on training with this very important piece of medical equipment which will prove to be invaluable in future emergencies.
- Dave Mikels and Charles Zoeller, from Pumping for Life made a quick trip here to investigate the water line that runs from a natural spring in the mountains to our water tanks. We are thankful that they have generously agreed to fund a project that will seek to replace the aging water line between the source and the storage tanks.
- Dr. Dan and Brigid Bohl were our last group this spring. Dr. Dan is a Urologist that came to do surgical procedures for the week and Brigid is his OR nurse.
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We've Got Lots of Cheaters!
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“It’s Wednesday morning and that means I’m in the Eyeglasses Clinic.” This is how I began my Blog-post one Wednesday in January. It has been nearly two years that I have been serving as the Eyeglass Technician at the clinic. In those two years the inventory for reading glasses, also known as cheaters, of certain magnifications were running very low. Thus, I wrote a blog asking for people to donate reading glasses. Wow, was I overwhelmed with the response! Friends and family responded by sending 20 – 50 reading glasses each for the clinic. My friend, Amber Shields, from Jacksonville Pres. in Oregon, graciously received the glasses and packed them up in a big plastic bin to bring down to Loma de Luz in February. Her church also donated over 100 sunglasses and readers themselves. There had been so many donations that I was overwhelmed with the inventory. Dr. Renee Kusler’s mother, sister-in-law and Aunt joined me in the clinic one morning and helped me organize and inventory the glasses. We had nearly 400 reading and sunglasses donated...Wahoo! One other neat fact pictured above: Over a year ago I had written a note to myself that an elderly lady patient needed reading glasses with a magnification greater than +3.5 (which was the highest number I had, and boy were they ugly!). Just a couple of weeks ago I was able to give her a pair of reading glasses from the ones pictured above. I literally jumped for joy when we received them. It has been such a pleasure to offer so many different modern styles to the patients in the magnification they need. Out with the old and in with the new (see photo below)! What fun. I want to say a very grateful, “Thank You!” to all that donated these glasses.
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