Short update

   Since I last posted, we have completed another big surgery week.  Dr. Stahl and his team from Ohio arrived on the 6th and we did cataracts for 6 days, 143 eyes!!  It was so great having a team of experienced nurses, scrub techs, and surgeons.  I learned a lot about how different and how much more difficult the eyes are down here and my Jamaican team realized how much more work doing cataract surgery requires.  There is a lot to it!  We still have a ton of training to do before I start operating on cataracts with just my Jamaican team, but we are working on it.  In the meantime, we are continuing to remove growths on the eyes - 5 done today - and have started doing injections to treat diabetes and macular degeneration.  I am very proud of everyone down here working together to get us functioning like a full-fledged eye clinic. 
  In the meantime, the girls have started school and are into their second week.  They are still making friends, but it is coming along.  It's a little more difficult with the thick accents and different material, so it has certainly been an adjustment.  But both girls are doing well in their studies and they started after school sports this week. 

   

We are missing all our friends back home and are hoping to make some new great friends here over the next couple months.
Eileen

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