4 August 2011

This week at the clinic I switched with the other intern, Christie, and went to the chart room.  The chart room is pretty boring.  It is not very complicated or very interesting, but I know I am helping them a lot so I do it.  Then during breaks I look at my French book.  The Lord has been good though and I have not had to be in the chart room the whole time.  For the past couple days I have been preparing patients to see the doctor by obtaining height, weight, blood pressure, and temperature.  Being with and doing things for the patients is much better than just sitting in a room looking for charts.  This week a different doctor from Ferke (pronounced like “fair-kay”) is at the clinic, Dr. Michael.  He is from Congo, and he is hilarious.  He and the other doctor have allowed Christie and I to come in and watch or assist with many of the procedures.  They usually involve incision and drainage of an abscess, dressing a wound, removing skin lesions, or something like that.  They do not do huge procedures at the clinic, but each procedure involves wounds and lesions I have never seen before.  A woman even came in this week that was bitten by a viper!  It just seems crazy all the different types of stuff seen here at this clinic.  I had wanted to come last summer, but it did not work out.  But God knew exactly what he was doing because a lot of what I have been doing at work and school this past year has prepared me to see and do the things at the clinic.  I would not have known any of the lab work without having been at Richeson Drive Pediatrics.  I would not have been as knowledgeable or as practiced in certain skills without this senior year of nursing school.  I was so confused last year when it did not work out to go, but I am seeing some of the reasons why now.  It is just continued proof that God works out every detail for a reason, and He works it out much better than we can ourselves.  Not every twist and turn am I able to see the results or reasons, but He knows exactly what is happening.  My mission’s journal has a quote in it by Hudson Taylor that says, “God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supply.”