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ramblings of an angry man

6/12/2019

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I have been filling in for Valerie this week in the rural brigades/health days we are doing.  She was unable to go at the last minute, as the other doctor in the clinic to see patients has been called away and will be gone for a while.  But, it is not a big deal we reasoned, as things were set up to only be distributing reading glasses to people over 40 (since I was going to be by myself in that area while the rest of the group is doing medical outreach...doing a full array of glasses and fuller exams is not quite so feasible by yourself in these settings.)  

This plan makes perfect sense...except when you factor in the fact that some people need help and figure, when is the next time they are going to see us?  (For some of these places it has been quite a while, since we have not had any student teams to help us for several years.)  

So instead of just picking through some reading glasses, it has been days of interesting conversations about mostly normal stuff (pterygiums, aged related cataracts, allergies, dry eye, young kids needing glasses for school work...even trauma related retinal scarring and the like.) 

But then came the mother with her seven year old son.  He has a lazy eye and wanted to check on him after trying to get him seen at the public hospital but missing an appointment (very long distance away for them) and then seeing a private doctor nearby in Comayagua.  

The private doctor told her that nothing could be done, that he did not need glasses, and not to let anyone ever do surgery on his eye.​
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What you can see there instead of black in his pupil is a congential cataract, to go along with his strabismus (the lazy eye...in this case, his right eye is angled out to the right)

This is frustrating, because the doctor here told her that surgery would not help since he was over five years old.  That is not true.  It is possible he could see if he got surgery, along with other help.  Likely not 20/20, but something.  It is also not true that he should not be wearing glasses, since he should have protection for his good eye!  

I share this mostly out of frustration and the need to speak my mind and wrestle though some things, and in anger over the overwhelming lack of good eye care in Honduras for most people...and even sometimes when they go to see doctors and still don't get good information.  But also, in the midst of my own struggles with inadequacy, and the natural tendency to wonder what can I possibly do to help?  

Surrender is hard sometimes.  Acquiescing to higher powers (be them others telling you that you can do something, or God telling you to do something you know you can't do without Him) can be a difficult skill to acquire.  

So, as I share out of my frustration not to you dear reader but instead to myself...I say in exhortation, SNAP OUT OF IT!  We have been given knowledge, wisdom, and not a spirit of fear, but rather the Holy Spirit, being equipped to do every good work set out for you ahead of time.  Read 2 Timothy 1 and learn to suck it up buttercup!  Fake it until you make it!  

I might not think I am good enough, smart enough, or that dog gone it, people don't like me...but it doesn't matter what I think, or even what might be 100% true about all that, because God's Word is true above and beyond anything real about me, and He tells me...

10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

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