Most years in July, Medical Ministries International (MMI), an organization I partner with several times a year, has an eye campaign. Ophthalmologists, Optometrists and zillions of helpers come to Peru and we operate on cataracts, get people prescription and reading glasses and pull foreign bodies out of eyeballs (That was today's most gratifying patient, because he was instantly relieved!). Several pastors volunteer to share our hope in Christ to the myriads of patients (last Friday 612 patients were seen!) while they wait in line. Today, Mia and Paul joined us because they are on winter break from school. You can see them with the acuity cube testing an unseen patient standing 20 feet away.
I wish I could be with them more while they work, but I'm seeing the patients a few stations after they check their vision to look at their retinas. Ironically, I found at this clinic that my eyes are getting so old I have to wear reading glasses to look at my patients' pupils to look for Marcus Gunn Pupil. I had to take a break from my first patient and get a pair before I could finish with her!
