So we left Dominican Republic and are now on our way to country number 3. I had a good time in DomRep and we worked quite a bit which was really awesome. We had something almost everyday. And with the exception of the performance at the women's prison, we got rained on at each site. Boo for that! The 'interuptions' caused us to either stop early or come up with a clever way of finishing out our set. Today we had a 'steel beach' picnic on the helo deck of the ship. After our abandon ship drill at 1330, we headed back down to our workspace to get our gear and bring it up to set up for our performance. Everything started out really great but as our luck would have it, yep you guessed it...we got rained on. It didn't pour the whole time, but we had to stop less than half way through our first set and tear down. Stupid luck. As we finished our tear down and for quite a while thereafter, there was no more rain...so we could have finished, but we didn't. I stayed out after tear down was complete and watched people have a great time riding adult sized tri-cycles (I took a ride on one too and got a pic), doing dance-offs and just plain ol have a great time. I ended up leaving around 1900 and headed off to the gym...I needed a good workout. There was an ice cream social tonight too. I allowed myself to have a couple bites of ice-cream which was really yummy but VERY rich. As we prepare to go to stop 3, I continue to try to figure out a way to make my piece of the pie that much better.

If you are interested in seeing what the medical numbers were like in DomRep, here they are:

*10,294 patients were triaged
*206 surgeries were performed onboard the ship in 7 days, 316 were screened
*3,012 optometry patients were seen and 2,972 pairs of glasses were given out
*18,608 prescriptions were filled ashore
*42,799 healthcare service encounters were accomplished (this would be the number of people that were taught something in classroom based situation)
*there were 106 accupuncture treatments
*there were 1,917 dental patient encounters
*2,002 animals were treated

If you remember back to the stats I posted about Haiti, you probably recognize that the DomRep numbers blow Haiti's out of the water. It just goes to show you that as time goes on, the team gets more efficient and therefore can treat and see more and more patients. With this progress, I can't wait to see what the numbers will look like at out last stop in July.

Tomorrow starts a new day in a new place. I can't wait to get started.

Thanks for stopping by....
Keisha

p.s. my toe is better...i think it was a freak thing that maybe i hurt it during a workout or something. i went to sick call yesterday for a follow up. the doc checked it out and said that it felt very normal. so yippee!!!