Today we made our final visit to the Immaculate Heart of Mary orphanage. Our first concern was the girl who we had sent to the hospital last week for stomach pain. To our relief, it turned out that she was just fine. We saw quite a few staff members and children with parasites this week, probably because some kids had gone home for the Holy Week. We also saw quite a few colds or "colds", because as one of the house mothers said, whenever we come everyone is "sick", so that they can hang out with us. We also examined one of the nuns who may have rheumatoid arthritis, so she must go to the hospital for some tests. We got to practice our OMM skills a little today on a few women who had back
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