Verry Funny Maggie!!!!!!!

Maggie is a scrub tech that has gone on the Honduras trip many many times. She coordinates everything as far as supplies go. She makes sure we have everything we're going to need when we get there. We'll pack a carry on for our personal stuff and the luggage that we check will be filled with medical supplies. How they get equipment over there that is donated, I have no idea. I guess someone flies it over there.

Anyway.....I sent her a little email yesterday asking her if she knew what cases we would be doing yet. Her reply this morning was kind of cute. You may not think it is that funny but I did. Below is her reply and then I'll explain why it was funny:

In the next couple of weeks Dr. Will get an email with some of the cases on it. We do a lot of gallbladders, hernias, some hemoroids, some peds cases. With the othro guys going we'll get some of that. The occasional CABG. (got ya).
Maybe a thyroid, lumps and bumps, scar revisions, then pretty much what ever comes in the door. We will know more soon.
Maggie

It's amazing how many thoughts can fly through your mind in a split second. I bolded the line that got me "The occasional CABG".....if you don't know what that is, it's coronary artery bypass graft - its major crack open your chest, stop your heart, put you on bypass (which is an enormous machine), harvest a vein from your leg and then attach it to your heart surgery!!!!!!! Before I got to the (got ya) part, my eyes bulged out of my head and all of these thoughts went through my head - "Are you kidding me?", "No way", "Ain't gonna do it", and "Ok, that's your case not mine". I've only seen one of those surgeries and was with the meanest preceptor on the face of the earth who told me to stand there, watch and don't you dare touch anything!!!!! Anyway........when I did get to the "got ya" part I had to laugh out loud.

Like I said, its amazing how many thoughts can go through your mind in a split second.

By the way - hemoroid is actually spelled hemorrhoid. Just had to fix that since I worked for the colon and rectal guys for 12 years.

All medical supplies were moved today from the warehouse in Greer to a new location in Greenville. We managed to fit everything into a 25 foot horse trailer that we borrowed from Dr Wendell James. It really did not take as long as expected because there were so many there to help.

Now comes the sorting of the supplies....If you can imagine how many boxes you could fit on a 25 ft trailer ---- well, that's how many boxes we have to go through plus about two more trailer loads that were already at the new warehouse.

Wasn't able to take any pics to post because, well.....I was busy :)

Moving and Sterilizing

Tomorrow the team will meet to move supplies from one location to a new storage area where we will begin sorting and sterilizing. It will be the first time I will meet allot of these people but there will be a few familiar faces so I'm excited to meet everyone. Right now, there are 23 people going on this trip.

Local hospitals and physicians offices donate supplies for the medical missions. Some are new, some are not and have to be repackaged and sterilized. The storage units are also donated.

I hope to be able to take a few pics tomorrow and post them on here so.....stay tuned.

Preparing For Honduras

Getting ready for Honduras.....excited and a little anxious. Will fly out of Atlanta February 20 and head home on the 27th. I am very excited about the opporunity to go and work in Honduras for a week.