Back to Alero Cuku
Our time in the Alero Cuku village on Wednesday was amazing. We got to the village and set up a medical clinic, pharmacy and a wound care clinic. When we arrived there were already several hundred people in line. We set up five stations for doctors to examine patients.
Wound care was intense. Dr. Rafael had to inject lidocaine in many of the patients and cut out dead and infected flesh. In northern Uganda people can lose limbs when common cuts become infected. Our team were rock stars in holding kids and praying for them as they were being treated and squirming in pain from the treatments. We also assisted the doctor by handing gauze, tape, hydrogen peroxide, etc. Joy picked up on the system quickly and treated several patients, scrubbing off dead skin and cleaning the wounds. The whole team took turns there.
In other areas people were playing with the kids. Blowing bibles, duck duck goose, and the famous Kristin Nunes dance party. Others worked the pharmacy, including Toby and Tristin who demonstrated their math skills. Tim and Tressa went out to huts to tell people about Jesus. Brian Larsh went out with a guy named Tom from EV Free Thousand Oaks, and Richard who is the pastor of the new Alero Cuku village church that was planted by GBCC.
Dinner was Ethiopian, which was amazing, or not so good, depending who you talk to (ie. Joy) . Plenty of Stoneys around the table. Good times.
Super tired right now. - Tim