Cristian lives just a 5 minute or so drive from the clinic, probably a 15-20 minute walk.  Darwin asked if I wanted to visit him at home a week ago.  Darwin had first visit him shortly after he had been shot while working on a bus in our neighborhood.  We went back recently to check on his ulcers.  His mom takes very good care of him, but being paralyzed from the waist down he is susceptible to these issues. We took them some gloves, some diapers (we always ask for adult diapers to put on containers...they are so expensive here. We didn't have any the XL size he needs, because of the ulcers), we spent some time talking, and then prayed for all of them.  Then...his mom sent me home with a big rose bush for Valerie.   

This doesn't look like a clinic, but a hospital.  It is Doctor Carlos, doing a "minor surgery" for a patient with a lipoma that was bothering her.  She had been looking for a place that could remove it for her...and then she found a place that would take the time, effort, and had the people with the skill and materials to do it.  

The optometry clinic sees patients literally from all over the country, and sometimes patients from other countries.  

This week, a regular visit from the Micah Project, another ministry here that helps young men that have/had been living on the streets of Tegucigalpa.  

Helping people...and helping people in other ministries help people, is a very cool thing.  

We get updates from the pastors and farm managers fairly regularly, depends on the week and what is going on.  

This week was different.

We received these pictures from Rony in Las Botijas and a brief explanation.  

I'll translate:  "We went on Sunday to take a sick sister to Zambrano (the town down at the main road) who was in pain."  (Later found out she went from there to Comayagua to the hospital)

"Then we brought her back today (Monday) and she came with a baby."

Wow.  

So they used the Land Cruiser as an ambulance (not the first time in these areas) but it appears everyone was in for a surprise.  

My bigger surprise is that she went down on Sunday on that somewhat, oh who are we kidding, VERY bumpy road, and then right after giving birth went right back up the next day.  

Darwin then sent me some pictures of using the actual ambulance here in Tegucigalpa to help a family whose grandmother had broken her hip.  The hospital was sending her home because there was nothing more they could do for her, she could go home to die.  But she couldn't walk, and the family had no funds or way to get her home.  He stepped in to help.  
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