This will post once we get back to the hotel, but.... It is 2030. We're still operating and have at least an hour left in the OR and another half hour in recovery. Dinner has not been eaten, our feet and legs ache, we're tired... But we're still excited to be in San Pedro Sula, helping kids and changing lives. We've all decided that the mission miracle for this trip was when the head of the World Surgical Foundation, Dr. Alvear performed emergency bowel surgery on a newborn baby who was born with its bowel outside of the abdomen. Had the mission not been in the right place at the right time, that child would have been lost. Today I watched one of our talented surgeons perform a bone graft of a rib, fashion an ear out of it and implant it on a child who had no ear. I also assisted with a skin graft and ear revision. Crazy, amazing surgical procedures going on here in Honduras!
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