February 2017 Team finishes on Tuesday getting ready…
Tuesday is the last day of surgery. The week has gone so amazingly fast. The team needs to finish up and also plan for their day of culture. They are quite aware also that a team of 47 is coming in the same planes they leave on Sunday. That team will do over 1000...
2017 February Hernia Team goes into Monday
The team progressed through five more cases. With three anesthesia and a alternating team for the surgery room, nurses are off and on while Dr. Jay operates in two different rooms. While one is busy, the next is being set up for the next case and then back to the...
2017 February Hernia Team Starts Second Surgery Day
What is a great day for a surgery team in Belize? We asked that question at breakfast this Sunday morning after our first full surgery day on Saturday. We all agreed that it was a great day yesterday. Why? We are a team that has never seen each other, much less worked...
2017 February Hernia Repair Arrival
The team that is tasked with performing hernia repairs arrived safe and sound at the airport on Thursday and were greeted by a local nurse, Lupe Ack and sat down to enjoy an authentic Belizean Meal and a cold drink outside. Dr. Fry, was a bit delayed and had to fly...
2017 January Last Day
Our last day of work. Where did the week go so quickly? One day to fly in, one day to organize and screen for patients, and our last day of four to perform our tasks. The day began with eight white fifteen passenger vans converging on the tiny village of Patchakan...
January 17 Monday Teams Report
The teams are all having great days. Today is day three for the four identical days. The Construction Team is split into two groups. One group is going to finish the house while another went on a two hour journey across two river ferries to work on a church that is...
2017 January Two Villages, Surgeries, Construction
Sunday, the teams headed out to the hospital for surgery, to the house to build it and to two villages to offer free medical evaluations. The vans were all in the parking lot and easy to find today! The surgery team was able to stay on schedule and hopes to be back at...
2017 January Begins Surgery and Village Day One
Saturday in Belize was a busy day with all the seventy four team memberss going in different directions and different villages. The night before, we had a report on how all the screening of patients went at the hospital. We learned that there were over sixty surgeries...
2017 January Begins with 74 arriving
Sacramento, Klamath Falls, Newark, Washington D.C. British Columbia, Florida, New York, Portland, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton and on it goes to list cities gather the 74 participants. At dinner it was clear that a great number of us were functioning on...
February 1st and 2nd
Our last two days are coming to a close. The surgery team is completing their last cases and the village team is closing up to head back home. The dental clinic is finishing their patients, and the construction team is doing some side projects since they finished...