February flew by with the demands of dental school and I was refreshed at the start of March by joining a group of professional health students and clinicians for a service trip in San Salvador, El Salvador. Pictures tell some of the story:
I'm looking forward to Easter weekend and hope you enjoy it also. Nearly one more month and I'll have completed my first year of dental school! That feels like an accomplishment, considering that we've lost 4 classmates so far...but it also is a joyous and frightening reality check for the fact that I will be a practicing dentist in just over three short years!
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| My Father's House International, the orphanage that we came to support, works to reconcile separated families while lovingly caring for children before the process is complete. |
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| Dr. Ed Read, one of our group leaders points out the area in which we are serving while we drive back to the hotel after the first day of clinic. |
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| Another one of our leaders guides an elderly lady towards the triage table. |
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| Medical consults under the tents. |
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| Physical therapy exercises |
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| A great dental experience for all! |
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| Dental corner of the beach-side clinic |
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| Holding down a toddler for anterior extractions is no fun. I bet his mom felt the same way. |
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| I really enjoyed praying with each patient on this trip...it's not something that I'd done on other service trips |
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| These sisters posed in front of a church across the street from the town hall in which we held a clinic |
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| Ed (MD) and Debby (RN) Read are the Christian Medical and Dental Association student group leaders on the MCV campus. It has been such a blessing to get to know them and be involved in the group since starting dental school. |
