I broke down yesterday and took a percocet
and a muscle relaxer
because my back was spasming
like crazy.
An hour later I snapped this
photo of myself.
If you didn't know this about me,
I am a hunter,
hence
the antlers in my
living room which are perfect
for drug-induced photo opportunities.
Too bad the wapiti gods didn't
smile on me and grant
me a tag this year.
But enough of me. I have something special I want to share.
Around this time last year, my
friend Amy and I had an
amazing chance to
volunteer at the St. Andrews
Children's Clinic which
in located in Nogales, AZ.
This clinic operates the
first Thursday of every month
to provide healthcare services to children in
Northern Mexico. The patients come by bus
over the border to the church which is transformed
into a mini hospital for the day.
This clinic also provides orthopedic and cleft palate
surgeries to patients who are flown
to various hospitals for these
procedures.
Simply amazing.
This clinic gives children a chance to
rehabilitate and receive care that
is hard to come by in their
home towns.
The Arizona Student Nurse's Assoc. continues to
be involved in this amazing clinic...
as a student nurse, it really opened my
eyes. I walked away very
humble and grateful for the things
I have been blessed with.
Having stayed in Sonora as an
exchange student when I was a grade-schooler,
I can verify that access to healthcare
services is extremely slim.
Many people argue that we should
not provide this free service to
people who don't even live in our country.
I say SCREW those people.
By Christ's word, we are to love our neighbors,
love one another.
That love does not and should not only extend
to those in the continental US.
We should have compassion for all of our fellow
human beings.
Compassion is hard to come by these days.
Our group of nursing students to volunteered last summer
For more information about the clinic and
Consider what you can do to ease another person's suffering.
While down in the very southern part of the state,
Amy and I decided to
take advantage of a friend's offer
to trail ride though Benson.
My view from the back of a cute little roan mare
Amy on her caballo
After the clinic, we decided to
stop by one of the old Spanish Missions
founded by Father Kino.
This one is called Tumacacori.
It was so beautiful... have I mentioned
I love places with a past?
I do.
Go by and see it if you ever go south
enough in Arizona where the
mileage signs start measuring by
kilometers :)
Now time to ice my back.
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