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Short story: Our first eye screening at the Kissy Eye Hospital went really well today!

Long story:  My day started at about 5:45am, leading up to a 7:05am departure from the ship.  Traffic was pleasantly light so the ride only took about 10 minutes.  We got our rooms set up and got started without any issues.  Patient after patient began filing through our doors, being screened for cataracts, pterygium, etc.  I was stationed in our first room, making sure that the patients were flowing through the visual acuity stations (those eye charts that we have all experienced).  Suddenly, Mekenzie runs through the room to the emergency supplies bag.  Mekenzie is a nurse on board who we brought along to take care of any emergency issues that would arise.  I was quickly like "What's going on??"  But then Dr. Woody, our head eye doctor walked in with a bleeding wound on his forehead.  It turned out that something had fallen out of a tree and hit him on the head.  No big deal!  This all continued until about 3pm, at which time we had seen a total of around 500 patients, with 42 scheduled to come to the ship for a secondary screening.  A lot of patients received eye drops or antibiotics, and I even got to do a little instruction on the importance of Vitamin A.  The takeaway point of this story is that things went well and were peaceful.  (Sorry if this is a little non-cohesive, as it has been a super-long day!).

Tomorrow is our first day of eye surgeries, so I spent a good bit of time this evening getting ready for that.  Pray that all goes well!

I had my Chaco's on for 14 hours straight.  Gross.