Examination Room Update
For the past six days that we have been seeing patients, we often tell parents that their children either need surgery now or they will need surgery when we come back on the next mission. But today, we had a wonderful experience when two families who were told by local doctors that their children needed surgery, were then told by our doctors that their children would be fine -- no surgeries required.
Tomorrow, we'll post video about the powerful conversations we had with the kids' families.
Operating Room Update
Today, Dr. Gilbert and his team were scheduled for four surgeries, but it looks like we're just going to be able to do three--still an awesome feat. They operated on Nayeska, a 9-month old girl; Stephanie, a 12-year old girl; Jose a 13-year old boy, who waited through four other MKI missions until he was finally selected; and the last surgery scheduled was Steven, a 7-year old boy, who will likely be rescheduled for tomorrow.
PICU Update
Dr. Clark reports that all has gone well today. All five beds in the PICU are full. The room is buzzing with all the monitoring machines blinking and sounding off.
Recovery Room Update
Today MKI intern's Jeremy & Jordan spent most of the day playing with the kids recovering. Jeremy remarked that the recovery room was pretty quiet when they got up there in the morning, although it was full. But within minutes, Jordan and Jeremy really pumped the place up--playing board games with the kids, playing a couple movies on a loaned iPad and generally goofing around and having fun.
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