Wednesday was our third clinical day, and we woke up to soaked surroundings and to the news a big mudslide had ripped through Ibarra and closed some of the roads that we were going to use to get to our location, an area of Ibarra called Milagro. So after we got all our gear packed up we decided to still go and set up the clinic especially in the wake of this mudslide. We just had to take crazy muddy back roads up the mountain to an old stone bridge that was further up the mudslide wake and therefore was manageable to cross, come back down the mountain and set up our clinic.

So after maybe 45 minute ride, we arrived late to our clinic location for the day which was a school.  They had actually cancelled school that day so the kids and their families could come to the clinic.  Needless to say, this day we saw the most patients (about 415) and we got the latest start so it made for a long day…but a very good day!

Doing what I love to do!

mmm…Manual Cervical Traction.  Works every time.

After this long day, we went back home and got ready for yet one more clinical day.  On Thursday we went to another town outside of Ibarra called Cotacachi.  We had rainy bad weather again so this day was a little slower in comparison.  We only saw about 200ish patients that day.  Needless to say after that, we were pretty tired, but we came back to the hotel and had a big dinner with the missionaries and our team.  The missionaries even brought a keyboard from the church for me to play.  So myself and some of the translators led all of us in worship through music.  That was cool!