Day 28

Wednesday

Wednesday was the beginning of my last week in Bolivia. One of the reasons that it was so difficult is because the Wheaton girls (Amy, Charlotte, Kathleen & Megan) left that morning. We drove to the airport on the way to the CDI that morning and dropped them off. We said our goodbyes and they all want me to visit....I hope I can! At the same time, we picked up two more volunteers! Jeff & Ellen! They are from California and I really enjoyed getting to know them. Jeff is a medical student going into 3rd year at USC and Ellen is working on a Master's (I am pretty sure) in social work. After getting dropped off at the CDI, Don Manuel took our new family members back to the guesthouse!

We didn't see very many patients at the CDI that day. Only about 10. There weren't very many people and those we saw were taking a long time to get to the bottom of what we though might be wrong. The first one we saw had several problems that seem rather generalized and just hard to figure out. Our first woman had a lot of generalized pain and other problems. After a while of digging deeper, she was really stressed. She was very worried because her husband drinks all the time and spends his money on drinking, so she can't afford to pay the bills. We were able to pray with her and encourage her to talk to someone at the church about it, because she had no family around to talk to. So that was another really hard thing to deal with. I unfortunately have forgotten her name, but her story will stay with me. After only 1-2 more patiens in each group, we had to leave.

That night we though it would be fun to try to see Wall-E. It was 2 for 1 Wednesday and thought maybe we'd have a chance. Well, we tried to see the one showing at CineNorte--sold out. We went to CineCenter--sold out. We went back to the other place to see about the later showing and as we got line.... you guessed it. Sold out. We had to get up early the next day, so we decided it would just be better to go home. I watched We Were Soldiers with Matt, Steve, Ester (though she got tired of covering her eyes so she left) and Johan. I hadn't seen it before....it was pretty good. That was the end of that day.