Everyone getting off the bus when it arrived at the clinic. It was quite the obstacle course around equipment and bricks to get inside the clinic. Next year, it will be much better after the construction is complete.
Chairs were set out on the covered porch for patients to wait.
Ladies making lunch for the patients who came.
'Before' picture of John's patient.
And a great 'after' picture. What a beautiful smile!
Here's Ivone getting instruction on walking with his new prosthesis.
Matthew getting a new prosthetic socket. The knee and foot portion of his leg were in good condition from last year. He had lost some weight, so his socket was too big. Matthew is great at walking with his prosthesis!
Dorothy heading into a room for fitting of her first prosthesis. Her husband (directly behind her in this photo) was so attentive in getting all the instructions to be able to help her with the prosthesis.
Dorothy learning to walk with the prosthesis. She did very well, and I'm sure will be walking without a crutch soon.
Joe with two family members who came with him. Joe is completely blind, and we had given him the walker when he came for casting to help him get around more easily.
Joe's prosthesis locks at the knee when he stands to give him a very stable prosthesis to walk on. He just pulls a lever to get the knee to bend to sit down. It was nice he had family who came with him to get instructions about the prosthesis as well.
Here's Anold learning to walk with his prosthesis.
After all the fittings everyone heading back to the bus.
Everyone loaded back on the bus and Protashow drove them back to Choma.
Protashow had arrived with everyone to the clinic around 11:00AM. The load sharing schedule for Friday was supposed to have the electricity out from noon-4pm, so we were expecting to need to use a generator to run any equipment that needed electricity. The power didn't go off at all on Friday, so we had electricity all through the fittings to make adjustments as we needed with equipment without needing the generator.
The electricity staying on had just kept happening over and over during our trip, which was awesome! One day when we just had fabrication all day, Suzanne and I were at the clinic working on sewing and laminations and John had gone back to guesthouse to work on painting. The electricity went out for about a hour at the orphanage but stayed on at the clinic. The clinic electricity is wired through the same as the orphanage! Suzanne and I had no idea it had gone off....we just kept working. The most amazing witness of God's provision!
This guy came all the way from Lusaka to measure the garage door openings of the clinic for metal gates. The gates will go over the garage doors for security and to protect the them from livestock bumping or leaning against the doors.
Measuring for the gates.
We had a great day of patient fittings and were looking ahead to Saturday finishing up with the last few patients and packing up the clinic. We would leave New Day on Sunday after church.
Beautiful Zambian sunset John saw from the water tower Friday evening.
*Next post: Saturday, Sept.17-Monday, Sept. 19- Last patients, church and heading home
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