Happy Fourth of July!

(Okay so I'm going to post these past few days separately, since I have been sick.)

So on the day of America's independence we went to another area in Iquitos (also very poor), and worked out of a woman's house. It was very very hot again, but we were inside. She had moved everything outside for us to set up clinic. The bathroom was the worst I've seen yet, like slumdog millionaire style. You walked across planks of wood, like single beams, to an outhouse. That was really like 3 walls and 2 floorboards. When I looked down I could see maggots, it was lovely. Hanna and I opened and ran pharmacy again which was fun. I'm really getting good with drugs! It was dripping sweat about 20 minutes after being there. I went on two home visits to see patients. We saw a woman with terrible arthritis and a bum leg from an accident years ago. We brought them each some medications and some physical therapy exercises. I also saw some patients with serious fungal infections of the skin. When the practitioners asked them when it began, they said things like 3 years ago, or 1 year ago. They were really intense! Hanna and I also fell in love with a sweet like disabled child with hydrocephalus. It began to rain after a while which was a welcome!

I left the site for another home visit. We went to visit a 5 year old who was deaf and blind. It was very interesting, we discerned that her mother had rubella while pregnant to cause the disability. They knew there was nothing we could do. The family just wanted advice. The child had her nights and days confused and still wasn't potty trained. They also had never heard of Helen Keller. I think hearing she had made it, gave them some hope. We gave advice and tried work out getting her into a school with a teacher who could help her.

After showering the hotel decorated the eating area for fourth of July and had a little show! It was very sweet, even if it was a tribal dance to the Anaconda. Seeing an Anaconda worship tribal dance on fourth of July is very patriotic if you ask me...We then went out for some drinks at a bar called the yellow rose of Texas. (Seriously now, patriotic). The girls and I made friends with some boys from Kansas. The waitresses were screaming for us to dance on the table, it was very entertaining, becauase they can dance way better than we can, obviously.