Today we are in Huarmey, which functions as the Team’s headquarters. We see a lot of the team around as the week is winding down. Everyone has stories to tell of hiking 10 hours to get to a village. Which of course means 10 hours back!
We work in the Special Education School with another PT today. We see 12 children and moms and 3 adults. There is one mom who lives 2 hours away. Her daughter is 6 and has some undiagnosed issue much like muscular dystrophy. Due to her weakness, she fell and broke her femur. As the family has no health care they did not have money pay for the health care for the broken leg. Her leg was casted in the broken position and that is the end of the health care she recieved.
Another guy had 150 logs fall on him and he is in pain with many issues due to the lack of finances to pay for health care services. We ended the trip with a family workshop which was run by Joe and Shelby without me! They focused on sitting posture, safe lifting for parents, and activities to improve hand and speech function. We are off to Lima.
We had the 5 hour or so bus ride back to Lima. What ever question we ask we get a different answer. Nothing is standard or predicable here. We need to be prepared at any moment for an adventure!
It will be nice to have toilets and warm water, soap, and a shower! We went 3 days in Quillo without a shower. There is so much honky of cars in Peru, especially in Quillo. We will miss the noise!
We will have some time to be tourists in Lima.
