Summing is all up…
Let’s have a recap of the mission… Eighty-three lives have been changed thanks to Blanca’s House…some no longer in pain from their gall bladder or hernia, some can use a finger again after a contracture is released, babies and toddlers can now eat, talk and suck for the first time. The clinic was bustling every […]
Learning Compassion and Flexibility in Ecuador…
Published in the Columbia University School of Nursing’s online newsletter… The 8-year-old patient breathed evenly, unconscious on a makeshift operating table in Guayaquil’s military hospital. The volunteer surgeon made an incision into his groin to repair his hernia using a donated scalpel. The CRNA administered anesthesia using a rudimentary anesthesia machine composed of metal cylinders. […]
Lighting up the room…
6/19/15 When most people think of cataract surgery, they mostly think of middle-aged and elderly people. Yesterday, we had three children in the operating room for surgeries on congenital cataracts. I can only imagine how scary it is to be in a kid in a hospital, surrounded by medical staff and sick people and unsure […]
