Day 8 - Wiroh Clinic

Thursday, March 21st
Today we traveled to Wiroh, which took about 1 hour - 20 minutes on highway 1 and then the rest on off-road paths that were very bumpy and rocky.  It was definitely off the beaten path! The men had left with our supplies at 5am so they could make the round trip and then come back to get us.
Emily and Debby stayed behind today due to their GI illnesses.  Patrick was not 100% but he came and filled in as one of the practitioners so that we could still see as many people as possible.  Today was even hotter than yesterday - we think it go to around 110 F? Jefferies told us that the "village" of Wiroh was made up of ~5000 people with only 2 lead pastors.  So we you think that we only see 200-250, we are just touching the surface.  Jefferies tells the communities to send their sickest, so that is what we hope happens.  He told this community that we would see less people today because of our long road trip and being down 2 people - but we still saw 230 people!!  Praise to God for giving us strength to do this.  The people were aggressive at times and even swarmed the triage area when they could sense that we were getting close to shutting down for the day.
Sarah Moses was a sweet lady in the community who stepped up and helped us translate in the pharmacy after she was seen by the doctors.  She sent her two young children (probably 3yr & 6yr old) home (1 1/2 hours away) by themselves to stay and help us!  What a servant.  We also had many spiders and wasps in the pharmacy area today and the locals just laughed at us when we tried to swat them away.  Thankfully, they stepped in and killed most of them for us.
As in previous days, we had just enough malaria medicine to treat those who needed it.  Today the last boy needed 18 pills of it and that is exactly what we had left.  He had been next door in triage all day getting IV fluids and cooling down from his temp of 105 F. While sometimes we ran out of ibuprofen or tylenol, we always seemed to make do with what we had.  We ran out of water bottles for us to drink about half-way through the afternoon.  This caused a little panic among us, but we were sustained.  We saved the last bottle to mix up liquid antibotics for the children and the supply held out.
We returned to the Buagyi compound to find Debby & Emily feeling better.  They had taken care of each other and some of the ladies in our compound, including our cook Esther, had looked after them throughout the day.  It had been a long and hot day for all of us and we were definitely growing weary.  But our team was wonderful and really looked after one another and encouraged one another at just the right time.
Tonight was our last night at Buagyi, so we packed up everything before we went to bed.  We also "enjoyed" our last bucket shower...  Our 5 nights here went by so fast!