Day #10 14/01/20
I played hooky from work yesterday as either the food or the water caught up to my GI tract. I spent most of the day sleeping and the rest of the day groaning and being pathetic. So there’s not much to say about yesterday other than I took my meds and slept almost the whole day. When I woke up this morning, I was 100 percent better!
The clinica movil went to El Zapote today. As we rode the 4×4 deeper and deeper up into the mountains, all I could do was watch in amazement. The farther we went, the more we were enveloped by the mountains and their lush forest. The morning was cloudy in a way that I’ve never experienced before. Since we were so high up, the mountain peaks were reaching through the misty clouds. That was when the pastor with our clinic taught me “que bonita,” which was truly an understatement.
The building that housed the clinic was an open type warehouse/barn concept which worked awesome. I assume that the village uses it for events other than the clinic. What did suprise me was that there was no hut toilet out back. As you can imagine, I realized this fact at a less than opportune time… I asked Dra. Altamirano (Jennifer) where we could go and she just nonchalantly said, “just as one of the houses next door if you can use theirs.” I was a bit shocked by that, typically this behavior is a bit frowned upon where I come from. By God’s grace though, somehow one of the patients found out that I needed help and they took me themself to a neighboring house to use their toilet. No way would I have had the guts to do that on my own; guts aside, I don’t have the spanish skills to get me that far. What I keep realizing while I’m here is not that God is doing anything flashy (not that he can’t) but He continues to provide even the smallest things–like a hut toilet.
ENOUGH. 