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I didn't have a chance to post any photos of the first surgery yesterday, but finally had a chance to do so today. Check out the gallery.
It's all good news from the OR and ICU, where David and Favour have already been moved to the pediatric ward, where they're being cared for by Ghanaian nurses. Their beds have been filled by today's two surgery patients. The first, Felicia, has already been extubated.
- Matt Cyr
Wow is the only word I can come up with for what we just experienced.
As Mary mentioned in her entry last night, we visited the Trede Roman Catholic School today to deliver school supplies donated by the students at Mary's daughter's school back home. The visit was one of three to local schools, an orphanage, a shelter and a day care center that members of the team will make during this mission to bring needed items to those who don't have the things we take for granted (pens, paper, crayons, etc).
None of us were prepared for the scene that awaited us when we drove up. Literally hundreds of school children, all dressed in either bright green or white uniforms, were gathered in their open-air classroom beneath the trees.
Many of them yelled greetings to us when we got off the bus, and before we knew it, a group dressed in traditional clothes began playing the drums and dancing for us. It was their way of thanking us for the gifts we brought them, and I can't imagine a more amazing show of gratitude.
Words can't do it justice, but hopefully pictures can. Check out the gallery.
- Matt Cyr
