Namaste,
We find our missionaries on day 2 starting to perform much needed surgery on grateful patients. After a one hour delay to the OR due to a miscommunication regarding patient deposits, we started our busy surgery day.
We ran two rooms and treated 6 patients surgically while our wonderful team doctor +Michael Wilson was helping with a few emergency patients while surgeries were underway and then beautifully managing our post op patients, working in collaboration with our caring Nepali nursing staff.
Day 2 brought a new surgeon into the mix. Dr. Tom Chang graciously offered his time and expertise to help guide us on our mission. He also brought along generous donations from great people back home. Tom has made a great impact on our mission trips in the past, in fact both Carl and I were lucky enough to have worked with him on previous Nepali Missions and couldn't be happier for the reunion.
I have to make a special shout out to Team Anesthesia. We are enter ally grateful for you all. Seeing you in action was fantastic. Regional blocks in a developing nation might intimidate some anesthesiologist s but not our team, who are well versed in ultrasound guided regional blocks. Your exquisite work has made our team doc's work much easier. Thank you, gracias, grazie, merci!!
Kudos and team player of the day... Marta, an ER nurse by trade, she fell ino whatever role was needed, be it runner, circulator, transport, photographer, scrub tech. Great job
Although the surgeons were busy on day 2 our team administrators Jason Martin, Marc Estvold and Kristi Wilson had a slower pace of the day than our initial screening day. New patients came in and they diligently got them registered, took their picture and got them screened but that initial wave of people did not continue at the same pace on day 2 which gave our administrators a chance to organize all of our screened patients into groups for our end of the mission report. We also were graced with Jason's masterful guitar playing and hope to hear more of it throughout the trip.
Day 2 ended with our checking on our post operative patients, planning the O.R./O.T. Schedule for the next two days and heading back to our gracious hosts at the Grand Norling where some in our group relaxed with some Tuborg by the pool and enjoyed the gorgeous weather, as day turned into night the full moon rose over the mountain top into the most breathtaking site I have ever seen the moon was surround by patchy,fluffy horizontal clouds not crowding but kissing the moon.
We had our first full team dinner at a restaurant now becoming a tradition with the HTC mission to Kathmandu. We boarded the team bus and enjoyed a bumpy, loud, slow, borderline scary trip into Thamel to partake of the wonderful ambiance and dining options at Third Eye restaurant. We enjoyed traditional Newari( people of the Kathmandu Valley) meals, Indian curries, Garlic naan and of course Tuborg, Everest beer and we even got Jason to have a shot of Rakshi(Nepali firewater) all while casually lounging in a quiet but traditional music,incensed filled corner of a darkened room with multiple levels of low lying tables allowing us to both relax and enjoy the whole groups company. We relaxed, drank and chatted about how everyone was doing on the mission so far, reminisced about times before at this restaurant and overall had a great time enjoying the company.
Day 2 was wonderful and we hope to build on the team dynamic and help as many of the Nepali people as we can.
Peace,
Dr. Jennifer
We find our missionaries on day 2 starting to perform much needed surgery on grateful patients. After a one hour delay to the OR due to a miscommunication regarding patient deposits, we started our busy surgery day.
We ran two rooms and treated 6 patients surgically while our wonderful team doctor +Michael Wilson was helping with a few emergency patients while surgeries were underway and then beautifully managing our post op patients, working in collaboration with our caring Nepali nursing staff.
Day 2 brought a new surgeon into the mix. Dr. Tom Chang graciously offered his time and expertise to help guide us on our mission. He also brought along generous donations from great people back home. Tom has made a great impact on our mission trips in the past, in fact both Carl and I were lucky enough to have worked with him on previous Nepali Missions and couldn't be happier for the reunion.
I have to make a special shout out to Team Anesthesia. We are enter ally grateful for you all. Seeing you in action was fantastic. Regional blocks in a developing nation might intimidate some anesthesiologist s but not our team, who are well versed in ultrasound guided regional blocks. Your exquisite work has made our team doc's work much easier. Thank you, gracias, grazie, merci!!
Kudos and team player of the day... Marta, an ER nurse by trade, she fell ino whatever role was needed, be it runner, circulator, transport, photographer, scrub tech. Great job
Although the surgeons were busy on day 2 our team administrators Jason Martin, Marc Estvold and Kristi Wilson had a slower pace of the day than our initial screening day. New patients came in and they diligently got them registered, took their picture and got them screened but that initial wave of people did not continue at the same pace on day 2 which gave our administrators a chance to organize all of our screened patients into groups for our end of the mission report. We also were graced with Jason's masterful guitar playing and hope to hear more of it throughout the trip.
Day 2 ended with our checking on our post operative patients, planning the O.R./O.T. Schedule for the next two days and heading back to our gracious hosts at the Grand Norling where some in our group relaxed with some Tuborg by the pool and enjoyed the gorgeous weather, as day turned into night the full moon rose over the mountain top into the most breathtaking site I have ever seen the moon was surround by patchy,fluffy horizontal clouds not crowding but kissing the moon.
We had our first full team dinner at a restaurant now becoming a tradition with the HTC mission to Kathmandu. We boarded the team bus and enjoyed a bumpy, loud, slow, borderline scary trip into Thamel to partake of the wonderful ambiance and dining options at Third Eye restaurant. We enjoyed traditional Newari( people of the Kathmandu Valley) meals, Indian curries, Garlic naan and of course Tuborg, Everest beer and we even got Jason to have a shot of Rakshi(Nepali firewater) all while casually lounging in a quiet but traditional music,incensed filled corner of a darkened room with multiple levels of low lying tables allowing us to both relax and enjoy the whole groups company. We relaxed, drank and chatted about how everyone was doing on the mission so far, reminisced about times before at this restaurant and overall had a great time enjoying the company.
Day 2 was wonderful and we hope to build on the team dynamic and help as many of the Nepali people as we can.
Peace,
Dr. Jennifer
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