Dental clinic was fairly routine. Fillings and extractions. Youngest patient was only 3 years old. Decay in all of his teeth. We had quite a conversation with mom about sugar. We decided to pull three teeth; lower molars that were the worst. You can’t reason with a 3 year old. You have three people hold him down and you extract a fast as you can. Very noisy; disturbing for the kids, but in 5 seconds it is over. Don’t eat a lot of sugar.
I can’t remember if I mentioned before that we are using all of our our supplies and instruments. The clinic is well stocked but not well organized. It is easier and faster for us to work of off a table, like we do in the jungle. They have an autoclave but it takes almost two hours to cycle and the pressure gauge needle never moves off of zero. We use our own cold sterile solution.
They have given up on Poppy’s Place. although there has been no rain, the Amazon continues to rise a few inches every day. They have abandoned the first floor, moving all the furniture. We don’t know when this will end. Our bridge to the island is almost submerged and the water is only a couple of feet away from our latrines. In fact, the latrines are almost full of water as well. We don’t leave here for 5 more days. Hmm
The well digging crew dug two wells today! That is a lot of hard work. Both for poor families. This is a huge asset for them. There kids will probably live longer. That makes a total of four wells so far. They are planning a fifth well on Monday. People of Peru are calling Rio Lindo Academy “The Record Breakers”!
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