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Guatemala 2024 || Day 3 (Bella Coleman) · Wesley at FSU & TSC

• 0:06
  SPEAKER_01: Hey everybody, it's Bryant.
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks for listening every day to this podcast, and and I just want to make sure that you subscribe so that you can get every day's episode.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_01: Today we're gonna listen to Bella Coleman tell the story about what we did at the medical clinic.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_01: One of the things that Solomon's Porch does is uh provide medical clinics for so many, um, particularly in the remote areas of Guatemala, so that uh many people who maybe have never seen a doctor could have an opportunity to do so.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_01: And so it was a pretty neat experience, and and a few of us Wesley students got to do that yesterday.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_01: So here's Bella Coleman.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, so we are here with Bella Coleman, who will be a senior at FSU next year, and she is also a ministry intern.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_02: This is her second time in Guatemala, but first time on a mission trip to Porch.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_02: So Bella, tell us like kind of what we did today.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_02: Just kind of give us a day summary.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so I worked in the medical team today.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_00: Um we came out uh to one of the nearby cities, drove a little bit, got here, set up, um, and we just performed medical clinics.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_00: We brought people in and we did some triage, we checked their vitals, um, their temperature, all that stuff, um, and then got them checked out by some of our doctors, um, some of which we brought, some of which they had.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then they prescribed them medications and vitamins and sent them over to us, and me and Kara and Bryant and some folks from Trinity helped to put those prescriptions together and put them in the bags, make sure they had what they needed for as long as they needed, um, just to help alleviate some of their symptoms uh for the time being.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_02: Awesome.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, so I often ask, like, what did you like about today?
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_02: But honestly, not every day is full of everything that you like.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_02: So what is something you just didn't like today, or something that like took a lot of effort, or some really high, you know, learning curve.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_00: Um, well, it was really hot.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but you know, it is every day, that's how it is.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_00: But um it was a big learning curve trying to figure out what all of the medications were for um and like where they were.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_00: We have I I mean I wish I could show you, we have like suitcases like billions of suitcases, probably like 20 suitcases full of medications, um, split up to like the different kinds of medication, like the antibiotics and pain medications, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, whatever, whatever you want it to be.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_00: There's there's uh suitcase for everything, and then different ones for kids versus adults.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: So it took a while to be able to put the prescription name to the kind of uh symptoms you were trying to alleviate, but I could tell you about five different gastrointestinal meds now.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_00: So um it was it was hard to learn the first few um like patients we put meds together for.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_00: I felt like I was lagging, I couldn't figure out what they were doing.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_00: Um but I figured it out pretty quickly, I think.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um it was also really hard to see like some of the symptoms that like the people are experiencing, especially the kids.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_00: Like seeing their weight being so low and seeing all of the problems and the pain that they're going through is just really hard, but it helps to know that like you're giving them the medicine that's gonna make them feel better.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um but yeah, that was just really hard to to look at.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that was a really humbling experience.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_02: Um okay, so Bella, tell us just something that will be memorable about today, particularly, and uh the experience you had here at this medical clinic.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_00: Well, we treated a lot of kids.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_00: Um I know they treated more yesterday, but we treated a lot today.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and most of them were kind of shy or were just worried about talking to us as Americans uh and the language barrier.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_00: But there was uh one boy, his name was Luis, and he just came up to me when he his mom gave us like the sheet with all of their meds, and he just stood at the table and watched me put meds in his bag, and I have very, very, very broken Spanish.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_00: But I I tried to talk to him as much as I could, and every time I would say something that he understood in Spanish, he would smile and try and hold a conversation, and and then after I gave him his meds, he just kept chasing around and made me chase him around the the facility.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_00: He's running over here now.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_00: Hola Luis! Hola Luis Um But uh just seeing Yeah, that's Louise Um But just the the joy and like the laughter of just seeing people help and like him getting help, seeing his mom get help and being able to just mess around is is very heartwarming.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_00: Hola! Hola Louise But uh yeah he's wearing a Mario hat and a soccer jersey, so I think he's uh gonna be a D1 soccer player in the future who's breaking my ankles, chasing me around.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_00: But um, I don't know, just seeing like the way his mood lifted after like us trying to help was huge.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we I found that to be true of so many of the kids here today.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_02: Um and it's it's a reminder that kids are kids, uh, which is a really neat reminder.