Vlog-style video transcript from Day 3 of a medical mission clinic in Kenya, featuring Nate and Kara Buchanan. They travel by van to a school used as the clinic site, set up a pharmacy, and treat growing numbers of patients. Kara alternates between triage and wound care (including cleaning wounds and treating jiggers); Nate works in the pharmacy. The day begins slow and becomes busy; scenes include children, logistical notes (rain, dirt roads), and informal narration.
Sam.
It is 7:15. This is day three of clinics, and we are about to hop in the vans and drive an hour down dirt roads to our clinic site. It rained a lot last night, so this could be interesting.
Hope we don't get stuck.
This is the tallest freestanding stone in East Africa.
We just got to the school where we'll be hosting the clinic today.
All the kids are looking pretty excited.
To see us.
As usual. There's a bunch of really cute kids at the site and I can't wait to play with them.
I'm gonna be in the pharmacy all day, which is in this building right.
Here in the building. Yeah. I think I'm actually going to be in triage today, taking people's symptoms down before they go see the doctor.
It's nice and cloudy today, so shouldn't be near as hot as it was yesterday.
Feels great.
Get the pharmacy set up.
All set up.
The line to visit the clinic is already growing and we're about to see our first patient.
Sam.
So it turns out they didn't really need me in triage, so I've been going in and out of the kids classrooms and just helping where people need help. I even cleaned some wounds. Feeling like a nurse.
Today I cleaned a bag that exploded all morning.
That's important.
What have you been doing? Inslee. Cleaning wounds. Did you help me clean wounds? Inslee's such a big help.
Kara's moved over to wound care.
Not sure if she knows what she's doing.
Kara, you look like you know what you're doing. How'd it go?
Something big and chunky came out of his ear. We're not positive what it was, but now he came here.
Great.
That was awesome.
Good job.
Yeah. Just here to help.
What's on your hand?
Sharpie looks brown. Do I need to do wound care? No.
Kara's currently treating these kids for jiggers, which are worms that crawl up into your feet and you have to suffocate them by using Vaseline and then wrapping a bag around the feet. And then once the worm crawls out, you have to finish pulling it out.
1, 2, 3.
Today started off really slow and ended up crazy, but we saw it helped so many people, so it's a great. I got to do wound care a lot of the time, which was different. It was definitely not as fun as the last couple days, but a necessity of funding, so I'm glad I got to help. That's good. Bye. Bye. Say.
That was pretty good. Did you actually learn the words?
Yeah. The inevitable happened. And something busted inside this bag.
And I was the lucky one who was walking by with a bus.
Probably because we sit on them to get them to zip at the end of every day. Yeah, we. We call them chickens. That is so neat. You're making the chicken right there. There it is.
That wasn't the shot.
All right, that's enough of that.
