by Staff | Feb 12, 2014 | Medical Mission Trips, Veracruz 2014
From the young patients’ perspective, the experience must be a bit frightening, with lots of strangers speaking in a foreign language crowding around to look in their mouth! Throughout the day in spite of crowded conditions and long waits, the patients and...
by Staff | Feb 11, 2014 | Medical Mission Trips, Veracruz 2014
To the uninitiated the scene might look like sheer chaos. But Dr.Cullington has given detailed instructions for sorting patients by age and type of surgery to facilitate scheduling. Kendyl was there to keep it all running in the right direction and to give the...
by Staff | Feb 11, 2014 | Medical Mission Trips, Veracruz 2014
by Anne Woodson Patients were screened by the surgeons first. Say ‘ahhhh.’ Then on to be cleared by an anesthesiologist and, if needed, the dentist and speech pathologist Speech pathologist Jissel Anaya was busy screening cleft palate patients...
by Staff | Feb 11, 2014 | Medical Mission Trips, Veracruz 2014
Sunday, February 9th was setup and screen day. Bright and early we set off in two buses. These bus rides seem to be the only time our leaders can corral us for instructions. Half the team went to the hospital to set up equipment and after only one brief stop...
by Staff | Feb 8, 2014 | Medical Mission Trips, Veracruz 2014
By Susie Woodson Austin Smiles is about to go on the road again. Today team members are gathering in Veracruz for the start of AS’s 79th mission outside the U.S. We’ll have four plastic surgeons but the entire crew amounts to almost 50 people to fill 10 different...
by Staff | Feb 8, 2014 | Medical Mission Trips, Veracruz 2014
by Anne Woodson In a little more than 24 hours (much less for you early birders) we will be landing in Veracruz, Mexico for the first Austin Smiles trip of 2014. We will be tracking down our luggage, meeting new people or trying to remembertheir names, and some of us...
