Update from Sunny Kenya

Jambo (Hello) Americans and beyond-
We are doing very well here in the mid 80's and bright sunny day! A couple of us may come home with a slight tan!
Jim is feeling much better, he thanks everyone for their prayers.
The rest of us have been able to not get his sickness. We are taking a lot of Claritin for the allergies to not flare up.
Day one of the medical clinic was amazing. We were able to see 60 patients. They have a lot of the same problems. The sun is frying, literally frying their eyes. They are getting cataracts, and they need to wear sunglasses. Most of the guys say they do not look smart (our way of saying "cool"). We are giving out 400 pairs of reading glasses. This has been so fun to see the people able to see for the first time in years with a simple pair of glasses. Dr. Parker's amazing moment was when he was helping a woman and she was not able to read her Bible for years and he fitted her with glasses and she began crying, so Dr. Parker was also overcome with emotion and cried and hugged her as well. These people are so grateful for the care they are receiving. WE worked out some kinks from the first day. We had the help of a wonderful woman, Dr. Elizabeth. She goes from traveling clinic to traveling clinic. She is friends with Pastor Shadrack and we are fortunate enough to have her help for 3 days! She is truly a God send.
Day two of the clinic was much much much better. We had a system and we had fun. Things ran smoothly, and the Chemist was our friend. They would see the Mzungu's (white people) walk in and know we wanted to place a 35000 KSH order. (Julie from FRH-you would love the quantities we were ordering :) ) We were able to see 80 patients on the second day. Kim has mastered blood pressures, and identifying worms, malaria, dehydration, and ameba's. She will make an excellent nurse. Dr. Jim is great with the children, a huge clown! Dr. Kristi is doing terrific at her Pharmacist knowledge, very helpful when we are wanting to order Tylenol and all they have is Paracetamol. Dr. Amy and I (Dr. Marz) have been helping with the check-in and triage. We have been having a great time. We had two girls from the local Chemist come and help us dispense the meds. Dr. Elizabeth (really a Dr) has been valuable beyond belief for us. Dr. Parker has loved every minute of wearing a stethoscope around his neck! He is learning how to take blood pressures. He even bought an Otoscope for future medical trips! Such a humble man Dr. Parker is...we must now refer to him as Dr. Parker all the time! We have given up trying to tell the people what we do in the states, we are all Dr's to them!
Please continue to pray for us. We are all doing well and loving it here, at times we miss you all, but realize we are living for today! We have to help these people who have so little and yet are so happy!
We are 9 hours ahead of you, right now it is 6pm here, and 3am at home. You are soon starting a new day, and we are ending one. We are off to have the same meal for dinner 5/6 nights! Gotta love the options. We are usually not hungry so we share our plates!
Please keep us in your prayers...
We will update you later.
Asanti Sana (Thank You)
Keep the Faith-
April