Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Alabama Overtakes Hondo

Last week, Honduras was covered in Alabamians (?) when I had a group of pharmacy students from the school of pharmacy in Auburn-including Jeanne Forrester, and nurse Elizabeth Yokley (a friend from home) here to visit. Finally, the number of Auburn tigers could compete with the number of Harding grads here in Sta Rosa!


Meanwhile, we had a group from Texas doing a dental/vision brigade, so the girls split up every day and traded out between helping at the brigade and coming with me to explore Honduras. 

The pharmacy group was here for a sort-of exploratory trip, since we've never had a whole group of pharmacists and it was the first time for their club to take a spring break mission trip. I took them to see the hospitals in town and the one in Gracias, and we got to go visit the cesar (clinic that is only attended by a nurse) in El Por Venir where we walked around town doing health screenings and talking to people about their medications. We toured a commercial pharmacy, and we got to spend some time exploring Santa Rosa. 

I always enjoy having medical people, just for the fun of sharing the experience, but it was especially fun having two of my oldest friends here! All four of them are obviously very intelligent, hard-working, compassionate ladies, and it was a pleasure to have them with me for the week.  



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