Grounds for Health Trip, Nicaragua Weekend: Getting Ready for 400 Patients

This weekend we awoke to very loud church bells ringing around 530am and we all went off to church, well not exactly. Some of us rolled over and some us roamed the city in desperate search of a caffeine fix. Everything was closed.

The Lovely Lab Team arrived on Saturday. We spent most of the weekend getting the clinic ready for the upcoming week.

Barbara, Kai, Ken, Cary, and Rob



All of us lugged lab and clinic supplies to the clinic (ie 5microscopes, chemicals, fans, etc...). We worked for 5 hours and lived on a diet of coffee (the good schtuff we finally found a decent coffee shop)


One of five clinic rooms


She works hard for her coffee...


The Lovely Lab Team set up all their microscopes and made potions of chemicals for pap smears. They LOVVVVEEEED mixing chemicals and came out of the staining room with goofy grins.

Ken the Master Mixer


Because chemicals are never good on an empty stomach, at the end of the day we headed to dinner at our favorite cafe, Cafe Artesana. We enjoyed delicious coffee, food and one anothers company.

We have a lon, hard but fun week ahead of us.
Off to sleep zzzzzzzz.... 400 patients, 399 patients, 398 patients....