Thursday and it's more of the same

Breakfast and the trip to the clinic were almost identical to the previous days.  In fact, by the end of the day, we had seen 313 people and are at a little more than 1200 for the week.  300 people a day seems to be the theme for this trip.  It's much more usual to start slowly and build every day until we are seeing as many as 700 to 1000 patients a day by the end of the week.  We have had rainy weather on and off and would explain some of this, but this consistency is very unusual.  I'm not complaining, it is just a little odd.

In the afternoon, one of our surgical successes from a previous trip was revisited.  The little girl Blessing, whom we were able to help last year when she was about 2 years old was there with her mother to thank us.  Blessing had been born with cataracts on both eyes and we were able to help her get the surgery she needed to have a full life.  She looked like any other cute little 3 year old girl today and her mother was very moving in her praise for us and the work we do here in Kenya.  We accepted her thanks and told her, through Catherine, since she only spoke Swahili, that cases like Blessing's are what keep us coming back over and over again and that we thanked Jesus that we were being used in this way.  I'll post pictures when I can.

Pastor Kevin headed back to the airport this evening for his journey back to Austin.  We all pray that he doesn't have any more adventures!  The rest of us went to the Mediterraneo Restaurant at the Junction Mall with Catherine and Shara Cunningham, one of our missionaries for East Africa who is stationed in Nairobi.  It was a real joy to introduce Shara and her wonderful ministry to team members who hadn't had the pleasure of meeting her yet.  A good time was had by all.  We all headed back across the street to Rosa Mystica to turn in early, since tomorrow will be a very big day.  First we will run the clinic, and then near the end of the day, we will be taking inventory of our supplies, packing up our equipment and saying our goodbyes.

That's all for now, to be continued as I can...