We hear from Dr. Johnson pretty much every day. He is becoming quite the surgeon down in Peru, extracting teeth with the best of them and doing it in not so great conditions. Here is an excerpt from one of his emails:
Hard day today. 4-5 surgical extractions with sectioning, bone removal, sutures. Getting to the point where I don't fool around as much- I now get after it. Am enjoying the surgery. The positioning- bending upside down due to immoveable and poorly positioned chairs, poor light, compressors that lose suction frequently and usually at the most critical time- all make it difficult. My back is really tired, therefore the rest of me is too. I probably removed around 20 teeth today in total. Could have seen more people today if the conditions were better.
Kate and Sarah are doing well. They went out to a local plaza with a number of the others from our group this evening after dinner. Seems very safe here. Katy is progressing really well as an assistant. Weather's great, very temperate. Food's good, lots of it. Sleeping well.
And here is an excerpt from Dr. McArthur's Blog:
Towards the close of the day, Dr Johnson had a very challenging extraction on a boy of about eleven. He was our last dental patient for the day, and Dr Johnson finished about 6pm. The boy and his mother had ridden a donkey for 14 hours to get here! They were obviously not able to go home then, so we fed them dinner and got them back to the town square where they could get a place for the night.
As usual, it was dark when we walked back up to town. The occasional car that would pass us would stir up so much dust it looked like fog in the street lights. I didn’t get a really good picture of that because it didn’t seem good to pull my camera out in the dust storm!
As I was in my hotel room typing this, I heard a band playing outside, getting louder and louder. Ran out front to see a marching band go by our hotel, up to the corner, turn, and march off. Turns out it was just a school’s marching band out practicing. At 8pm.
So pretty much just another normal day here in Cascas!
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