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Operation Walk Syracuse - Guatemala Mission 2016 - Day 7
Posted at: 10/6/2016 12:00 PM
Connections. The work of Operation Walk in Antigua Guatemala is complete, and the team is congregating to board the buses back to Guatemala City. As Hurricane Matthew pounds the East Coast of Florida, we hope to slip above it and make our connection in Atlanta. But whether or not we make that connection, we have made connections this week that will endure. First, it's impossible to come away from this week of patient care without making connections with those patients.Clearly, they understand
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Operation Walk Syracuse - Guatemala Mission 2016 - Day 6
Posted at: 10/5/2016 12:00 PM
There is risk in all things. Each of us, at any given moment, is embracing some degree of risk. Usually, it is modest. Driving a car, riding a bicycle, crossing a busy street… these things are not completely risk-free. And with risk comes reward. The willingness to accept risk stems from an understanding that our lives may be bettered or our circumstances improved by enduring that risk. Sometimes, we choose to put ourselves at a greater degree of risk, in order to reap a potentially greater r
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Operation Walk Syracuse - Guatemala Mission 2016 - Day 5
Posted at: 10/4/2016 12:00 PM
Monday October 3rd 2016 Our time at San Obras Sociales del Hermano Pedro is passing quickly, and tomorrow (Tuesday) is our last surgical day. Today we did another 21 surgeries, for a total of 57 so far. The OR had been bustling, and as the days have passed, the Hopital San Obras Sociales del Hermano Pedro has gradually filled with post-operative patients. It's an interesting place: it's rustic, but well-maintained and strongly staffed, and extremely clean. The hospital hosts mission trips all
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Operation Walk Syracuse - Guatemala Mission 2016 - Day 3
Posted at: 10/3/2016 12:00 PM
October 2nd 2016 It's about the people. Hard to elaborate. But I will try... In April, Operation Walk Syracuse went to Ghana, in sub-Saharan Africa, and traveled deep in-country to provide joint replacement surgery to a population of people who otherwise would never have access to that kind of technology. And, this fall, currently, Operation Walk has traveled, once again, to Antigua Guatemala, to provide the same life-altering joint replacement surgery to a population that otherwise might ne
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Operation Walk Syracuse - Guatemala Mission 2016 - Day 2
Posted at: 10/2/2016 12:00 PM
Day 2 - October 1, 2016 In a typical week at home in the SOS office, it's likely that we will see one or two people with some really profound orthopedic pathology. A really crooked knee, or a really deformed hip. It's not exactly rare, but it's unusual... mostly because in the US, really bad pathology gets fixed early on. Not so in Guatemala (or Ghana, or Nepal...). In underserved countries such as these, profound orthopedic pathology just gets lived with, sometimes to an astounding degree. T